A radio director was killed and a radio employee wounded after a gunmen stormed their station in Brazil’s Rondônia state on Saturday. Claudio Moleiro de Souza is the sixth journalist to be killed in Brazil this year, according to the International Press Institute (IPI)’s Death Watch. That statistic makes Latin America’s largest country not only the region’s […]

Over 500 journalists in Iran have signed a petition calling for the prosecution of Iranian politician Nader Ghazipour after he reportedly struck a parliamentary reporter several times in a corridor of the parliament building in Tehran on Monday. According to reports, Ghazipour, a conservative MP from Urmia, the capital of Iran’s West Azerbaijan Province, hit […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) and over 30 free expression groups yesterday called for Russia’s Investigative Committee to take over the investigation into the July 2013 murder of Dagestani editor Ahkmednabi Akhmednabiyev and to end the cycle of impunity for crimes against journalists in the country. The groups made the call to Aleksandr Bastrykin, head […]

The 2006 murder of Russian investigative journalist and International Press Institute (IPI) World Press Freedom Hero Anna Politkovskaya is emblematic of the state of impunity for such crimes in her country, yet she is only one of at least 62 journalists to have lost her life in Russia since 1997, according to IPI’s Death Watch. […]