At least 48 journalists have been killed in the line of duty in Pakistan in the last 10 years, and 35 of them were deliberately targeted and murdered because of their work.  In 2012 alone, five journalists were killed in the country, according to IPI’s Death Watch.  For every journalist who has been deliberately targeted […]

VA media building in Gaza was hit by Israeli missiles for the second time in two days, resulting in the death of a leader from the militant group Islamic Jihad and the injury of several others, reports said. This was the second time that the building has been targeted within the last 36 hours. Reuters […]

The International Press Institute strongly condemned the Israeli military bombardment of two buildings housing local and international news media in Gaza, which injured at least six journalists, according to local and international news reports.* IPI further condemned a travel ban imposed on foreign journalists by Hamas. “We remind Israel and Hamas that journalists covering conflict […]

A Gambian journalist who said he received an emailed death threat in late-October now says he has been threatened verbally by a group of men who drove by his home in a darkly-windowed vehicle late on Tuesday. The International Press Institute condemned the reported threat and reiterated its call to police to investigate. Abubacarr Saidykhan, […]