The International Press Institute (IPI) today condemned the murder of a Mexican journalist under police protection who was gunned down on Wednesday in eastern Veracruz. According to news accounts, Pedro Tamayo Rosas was working with his wife and two grown sons at a food stand outside his home in Tierra Blanca when two men approached […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today strongly condemned the killing of a prominent journalist in a car bombing in downtown Kiev this morning in what Ukrainian authorities have preliminarily called a “premeditated murder”. Pavel Sheremet, a Belarus-born journalist who had been working in Ukraine for the past five years at news site Ukrainska Pravda and […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today strongly condemned the apparent attempted assassination of a newspaper editor in Lesotho on July 9 that left the victim critically injured. According to reports, Zimbabwean national Lloyd Mutungamiri, editor of the Lesotho Times, was driving close to his home late at night when he was shot by at least […]

The International Press Institute (IPI)’s Executive Board today blasted an ongoing campaign of harassment targeting daily newspaper The Post in Zambia, saying that if efforts to silence independent media persist, upcoming general elections would be rendered “little more than a sham; an exercise inconsistent with democracy”. Citing a number of recent events targeting The Post […]