At least 10 journalists in the northern Colombian city of Santa Marta were threatened with death after disseminating an interview in which a jailed former paramilitary commander alleged links between his organisation and local politicians, news reports said. The commander, Jesús Gelves Albarracín, known as “El Canoso”, was interviewed on Sept. 7 by journalist Alejandro […]

The International Press Institute today joined with its Turkish National Committee, the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ), EFJ affiliate the Journalists’ Union of Turkey (Türkiye Gazeteciler Sendikası – TGS) and the Freedom for Journalists Platform (Gazetecilere Özgürlük Platformu – GÖP) to issue a statement expressing alarm over the continuing deterioration of media freedom in Turkey. […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today condemned the detention and beating of a leading independent Cuban journalist reportedly by Cuban state security forces, and expressed concern for the whereabouts of a missing correspondent. Roberto de Jesús Guerra, editor of the news website Hablemos Press, was detained along with one of the site’s photographers, Gerardo Youmel […]

Police in Ecuador are investigating the murder of a journalist in western Guayas province, whose body was found a day before a correspondent for the newspaper El Universo received a series of death threats. Luis Arnoldo “Noro” Ruiz, a correspondent for Extra and a former contributor to El Universo was found shot in the head […]