An angry mob attacked the staff of a magazine in the Indian city of Mumbai this morning, leaving at least one of the publication’s employees seriously wounded, according to an IPI source. Approximately 20 individuals stormed the circulation department of The Week, an English-language magazine published by the Malayala Manorama Group.  The magazine’s deputy manager […]

IPI today expressed alarm at suggestions that Turkish journalists Adem Özköse and Hamit Coşkun have been in the custody of Syrian authorities since March 10, and that at least one of them, according to news reports, may have been tortured. Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan yesterday said that Syria was holding the journalists prisoner […]

Aldion Layao, a former radio journalist and currently a village council chairman was shot dead in Davao city on April 8, according to media reports. Layao was on his way home with a relative in a car, when he was shot by two unidentified men on a motorcycle. He was hit twice in the neck […]

Lea en español The International Press Institute (IPI) today called on the Dominican Republic to protect its citizens’ right to information as the country prepares for the final month of a divisive presidential campaign. The frontrunners in the election, scheduled for May 20, are Danilo Medina Sánchez of the ruling Dominican Liberation Party (DLP) and […]