Latest News on Journalist Safety and Impunity

Gambian police chief says long-missing journalist is in the USA

The Gambian Inspector General of Police, Yankuba Sonko, reportedly said that Interpol confirmed to Gambian authorities that a journalist who has been missing since 2006 is actually in the United States. “As far as we are concerned, the latest information we received from Interpol is that he was seen in America and that is it,” […]

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Journalists reportedly intimidated in Kosovo

The Vienna-based South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), an affiliate of the International Press Institute (IPI), today condemned physical threats made against two Kosovo journalists on May 16 in the ethnically divided city of Mitrovica, in northern Kosovo. Protesters threatened to attack journalists Musa Mustafa of the Pristina-based daily Koha Ditore and Alidin Damati of […]

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Kidnapped Mexican reporter found dead

Lea en español The International Press Institute (IPI) today vigorously condemned the murder of kidnapped Mexican journalist Marco Antonio Ávila García, whose tortured body was found on the side of a highway in the northern state of Sonora on Friday afternoon. News reports say Avila’s body was found wrapped in a black plastic bag near […]

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Encontrado muerto periodista mexicano secuestrado

Read in English El Instituto Internacional de la Prensa (IPI, por sus siglas en inglés), condenó fuertemente el asesinato del periodista mexicano Marco Antonio Ávila García, cuyo cuerpo torturado fue encontrado el viernes por la tarde en una carretera del estado norteño de Sonora. Reportes noticiosos indican que el cuerpo de Ávila fue encontrado envuelto […]

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