A Lebanese journalist escaped an apparent assassination attempt on Saturday, when the vehicle he was driving was hit by six bullets, Lebanon’s Daily Star newspaper reported. Lebanon’s National News Agency said that Mustafa Jeha was pursued and shot at on Saturday night as he drove on a motorway just south of Beirut. The Daily Star […]

Attacks on the Yemen media are on the rise, according to Khaled Al-Hammadi, a well-known Yemeni journalist and recent founder of Freedom Foundation, a Sanaa-based NGO set up to promote press freedom and development in Yemen. Al-Hammadi, 2011 winner of the International Press Freedom Award from the Toronto-based group Canadian Journalists for Free Expression, told […]

A cameraman in Benin City, Edo State, Nigeria, was killed by gunmen on Saturday evening at the home of a couple whose wedding he had been filming, local news reports said. Chuks Ogu, 39, had worked as a journalist for the privately-owned Independent Television, the Leadership newspaper reported. He was killed when gunmen burst into […]

Lea en español One month after the Salvadoran online news site El Faro published a report that unleashed a storm of controversy in the country and prompted threats against its journalists, the International Press Institute (IPI) called today upon the government of El Salvador to take effective measures to protect press freedom in the country. […]