The International Press Institute (IPI) today welcomed news that a group of journalists kidnapped in Syria has been freed, but renewed its call for the release of three others currently believed held there. NBC News Chief Foreign Correspondent Richard Engel and four others were freed Monday following a firefight that erupted when captors transporting them […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today called on Brazilian authorities to immediately investigate reports of death threats against award-winning investigative journalist Mauri König. According to the Brazilian Association for Investigative Journalism (Abraji), König and his family were forced to leave their home in Curitiba, capital of the southern state of Paraná, and go into hiding […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today welcomed news that Bolivian journalist Fernando Vidal was released from an Argentine hospital where he had been treated for third-degree burns suffered during an arson attack in October. Vidal’s son-in-law, Esteban Farfán Romero, informed IPI that the journalist arrived in his hometown of Yacuiba, Bolivia, late at night on […]

ARTICLE 19, Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), the International Press Institute and Reporters Without Borders are deeply concerned that Ukrainian journalist Anhar Kochneva, kidnapped by Syrian rebels in October 2012, is in grave danger of being murdered. Her kidnappers, allegedly members of the Free Syrian Army, have threatened to kill her tomorrow, 13 December 2012, […]