India’s government needs to work harder to fight a culture of impunity for crimes against journalists, the International Press Institute (IPI) said today after two journalists were gunned down in neighbouring eastern states of the country within a 24-hour period. “We join journalists associations in condemning these killings and we urge authorities to conduct a […]

A Ukrainian website’s release of the personal information of more than 4,000 individuals from domestic and international media outlets who operated in the country’s restive east was ‘irresponsible’ and ‘ill-advised’, the International Press Institute (IPI) said today, condemning the move. On Tuesday night, a Kiev-based website with apparent links to Ukraine’s security services released a list […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today condemned the attempted shooting of Turkish journalist Can Dündar today outside the courthouse where he was expected to hear the verdict in a criminal case over reports claiming that Turkey’s intelligence agency secretly armed Islamist rebel groups in Syria. Dündar, editor-in-chief of daily newspaper Cumhuriyet, escaped unharmed when a […]

The Honduran government must do more to bring journalists’ attackers to justice, the International Press Institute (IPI) said today, two days after a radio journalist survived two apparent attempts on his life in a single day in the country’s capital city of Tegucigalpa. Radio journalist Felix Molina said that he was twice accosted by armed […]