The International Press Institute (IPI) today reiterated its call for the immediate release of Turkish journalist Cüneyt Ünal, who was reportedly captured by Syrian loyalist forces on Aug. 20. Ünal, a cameraman with the US-funded Arabic-language satellite station Al Hurra, was reportedly travelling near Aleppo alongside Japanese reporter, Mika Yamamoto, who was killed on Aug. […]

Japanese reporter Mika Yamamoto was killed on Monday in the Syrian city of Aleppo, where clashes between rebels and regime forces have raged for weeks. Yamamoto, a veteran war correspondent who covered the 2001 conflict in Afghanistan and the 2003 conflict in Iraq, was working for The Japan Press, an independent TV news provider that […]

Police in the Mexican state of Michoacán over the weekend discovered the dismembered body of a missing photojournalist said to have covered organised crime for a local newspaper. An inside source at the newspaper, Diario de Zamora, told AFP that Arturo Barajas, 46, had worked sensitive beats on a contractual basis. “When there were major […]

Public officials allegedly threatened or assaulted at least two journalists last week in Argentina, continuing a troubling trend that has made the country one of Latin America’s worst press freedom offenders in 2012. The Argentine Journalists Forum (FOPEA, according to its Spanish acronym) last week “energetically” condemned an Aug. 14 attack on radio journalist and […]