Charges have been brought against former Moscow policeman Dmitry Pavlyuchenkov in the 2006 killing of Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya. Politkovskaya, an outspoken critic of the Russian government, was shot by an assailant while in the elevator of her Moscow flat. She had sparked official anger through her investigative work, which focused on the war in […]

The Vienna-based South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), an affiliate of the International Press Institute (IPI), today condemned an attack on Kosovo journalist Halil Matoshi, who told Kosovo KTV that three unidentified men beat him on July 10. Matoshi, a commentator with the daily newspaper Koha Ditore, was attacked as he returned to his home […]

Conflicting reports indicate that a media owner and managing director of a radio station in Nepal was found dead on July 7 in a neighbouring district in India. The Press Trust of India reported that police said Santosh Gupta – managing director of the Birgunj-based Radio Bindaas FM, which Gupta founded only three months earlier […]

The Vienna-based South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), an affiliate of the International Press Institute (IPI), today expressed concern at new threats against Belarusian journalist Iryna Khalip, the Minsk correspondent of Moscow-based daily newspaper Novaya Gazeta. On June 22, Khalip found a chicken head in a plastic bag placed inside an unstamped envelope left in […]