The International Press Institute (IPI) today joined 27 other free expression and human rights groups on the second anniversary of the unsolved killing of Russian editor Akhmednabi Akhmednabiyev in Dagestan to repeat a call for Russia’s Federal Investigative Committee to take charge of the investigation. The groups initially made the request in a letter sent to […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) was troubled to learn of the deaths of two journalists in Mexico and urged the country’s federal government to conduct impartial and thorough investigations in both cases. Gunmen shot radio broadcaster Filadelfo Sánchez Sarmiento on Thursday morning in Miahuatlán de Porfirio Díaz, a town in the southern state of Oaxaca. […]

Despite its ongoing transition toward democracy, Myanmar took a step backward in terms of media freedom last week when a court officially closed its investigation into the murky death of a freelance journalist killed in October 2014 while in military custody. A civilian court determined that Ko Par Gyi – also known as Aung Kyaw […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today condemned violent attacks by Armenian police on journalists seeking to cover efforts to disperse street demonstrations in Yerevan and it called on authorities to hold officers involved accountable. “Reports that scores of accredited journalists were beaten and detained, and their equipment destroyed, at the direction of senior police officials […]