Latest News on Journalist Safety and Impunity

Third Serbian journalist targeted by explosive device in less than two weeks

Serbian journalists and their families have now been targeted in three attacks using explosive devices in less than two weeks. Following an incident on Oct. 30, the Vienna-based South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), an affiliate of the International Press Institute (IPI), said it had observed an escalation of attacks against journalists in Serbia. In […]

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Trinidad communications minister uses personal e-mail to intimidate media

The International Press Institute (IPI) today said it considered highly inappropriate the recent remarks made by Trinidad and Tobago Communications Minister Jamal Mohammed to Dominic Kalipersad, head of news at CCN TV 6. Last Tuesday, Mohammed sent a personal e-mail message to Kalipersad accusing CCN TV 6 and the newspaper Express of being prejudiced against […]

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Bolivian radio journalist set on fire during live broadcast

The International Press Institute (IPI) has denounced in the strongest terms possible an attack yesterday on a northern Bolivian radio station in which masked individuals set the station’s director on fire during a live broadcast. Fernando Vidal, 78, owner and editor of Radio Popular in Yacuiba, near the Argentine border, was in intensive care Tuesday […]

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Young Somali journalist dies days after being shot

Somali journalist Mohamed Mohamoud Tuuryare died yesterday, one week after gunmen shot him while he was on his way home from running an errand, the National Union of Somali Journalists and other news reports said. Tuuryare – 23 or 25 years old, depending on reports – was pronounced dead at Madina Hospital, where he was […]

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