Latest News on Journalist Safety and Impunity

Myanmar shelves investigation into journalist killing

Myanmar must not allow the case of a journalist killed in 2014 while in military custody to sink into impunity, the International Press Institute (IPI) said today after police dropped their investigation into the incident. Aung Kyaw Naing, better known as Ko Par Gyi, was shot in October 2014 while under military arrest near Kyaikmayaw, […]

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‘Major repression’ of Turkey media brought to UN Human Rights Council

The International Press Institute (IPI) and leading media freedom and free expression watchdogs have brought the ongoing deterioration of free expression in Turkey before the U.N. Human Rights Council, urging it to press Turkey’s government to end a state of “major repression”. IPI joined PEN International, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), Danish PEN, German […]

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Journalists covering torture assaulted at Chechnya border

The International Press Institute (IPI) has called on authorities in the Russian republic of Ingushetia to hold accountable those responsible for yesterday’s attack on six Russian and foreign journalists investigating human rights abuses in the north Caucasus region. According to reports, around 20 masked men wielding knives and clubs ambushed the journalists in their minibus […]

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Groups urge U.S. State Department to do more on safety

The International Press Institute (IPI) has joined with leading free expression and press freedom defenders in calling on U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry to take greater action to support efforts to improve journalists’ safety. Following up on a meeting with Kerry in 2015, the groups in a joint letter sent yesterday urged him to […]

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