A Belfast-based journalist received a death threat over the telephone on Saturday, reportedly from a terror unit of the Ulster Defence Association (UDA), a paramilitary group. The name of the journalist is not being revealed in line with a policy of the UK National Union of Journalists (NUJ) to protect individuals under threat. According to […]

A well-known Guyanese newspaper columnist and human-rights activist was assaulted late Wednesday night after speaking at a public vigil near the country’s parliament building in Georgetown, the latest incident in what he believes to be a government-sponsored campaign to silence him. Freddie Kissoon, who writes for the independent Kaieteur News, told the International Press Institute […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) and members of the Institute’s Nigerian National Committee today condemned a string of recent attacks against the press and called on the Nigerian police and the state prosecutor to fulfil their duties by punishing those responsible. The apparently targeted killings of two journalists this year underscore the urgency with which […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) strongly condemns the reported killing of two Syrian journalists in Damascus on Saturday, Aug. 11, 2012. According to various news reports, the Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) announced on Sunday that one of its reporters, Ali Abbas, was killed by members of an ‘armed terrorist group’ at his home residence […]