Latest News on Journalist Safety and Impunity

Two AP journalists shot in Afghanistan, one killed

A police officer in the remote town of Khost, near Afghanistan’s border with Pakistan, reportedly shot and killed one foreign journalist today and seriously wounded another. Veteran AP photographer Anja Niedringhaus, a German national, was killed in the attack and veteran reporter, Kathy Gannon, a Canadian national, was seriously injured. According to BCC News, Gannon was […]

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IPI calls for end to media pressure in Crimea

The International Press Institute (IPI) today called for an end to violence, harassment, intimidation and other pressure on journalists and media outlets in Ukraine. IPI Executive Director Alison Bethel McKenzie, in an open letter to authorities in Crimea, urged them to bring to justice those responsible for a number of recent incidents in the region […]

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SEEMO decries pressure on media in Croatia

The South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), an affiliate of the International Press Institute (IPI), said today that it was worried about a number of recent incidents of pressure on journalists and media in Croatia. Ante Tomic, a writer and columnist with the daily Jutarnji List, reported that he was attacked on Feb. 23 while […]

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Six convicted in murder of Pakistani journalist

Six people were convicted by a court in Kandhkot, Pakistan, on March 1 in connection with the 2011 murder of Pakistani Geo News reporter Wali Khan Baar. At least 73 journalists have been killed in Pakistan since 2000, according to the International Press Institute’s Death Watch. But until last week’s conviction, only the killers American […]

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