The Vienna-based South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), an affiliate of the International Press Institute (IPI), today condemned a physical attack against Chisinau-based Jurnal TV channel journalist Victoria Ocara, in Moldova. On Aug. 5, Ocara was reporting on clashes between two opposing groups of demonstrators in Balti, the second largest city in Moldova, when someone […]

A Honduran reporter is seeking asylum in the United States with his family after his son was shot and wounded on Friday in what the journalist said was the third attempt on his life in recent years. Honduran daily El Heraldo reported that José Encarnación Chinchilla López – a correspondent with Radio Cadena Voces in […]

After two months of investigation, the public prosecutor of Bulgaria’s Dupnitsa region concluded that arsonists who gutted the car of award-winning investigative journalist Lidia Pavlova were persons unknown, and closed the probe. Pavlova’s family car was set on fire on May 25 in the town of Dupnitsa, where she resides. The incident marked the second […]

As Enrique Peña Nieto prepares to assume the Mexican presidency, his public focus has been on scaling back the drug cartel-related violence in the country. Meanwhile, at least four incidents involving journalists being assaulted, abducted, threatened, or arrested have occurred since Mexico’s July 1 election, continuing the nation’s abysmal record of protecting its journalists and […]