Latest News on Journalist Safety and Impunity

Gunmen kill Nigerian cameraman

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 […]

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El Salvador online news site journalists threatened

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. […]

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Moldovan broadcaster’s equipment destroyed

The Vienna-based South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), an affiliate of the International Press Institute (IPI), condemns the destruction of technical installations of the regional channel Elita TV, based in Rezina, 100 kilometres from Chisinau, Moldova’s capital. On April 8, 2012, unknown perpetrators entered the headquarters of Elita TV, and deliberately damaged or stole technical […]

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Journalists reportedly attacked in Greece

The Vienna-based South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), an affiliate of the International Press Institute (IPI), strongly condemns the latest attacks on journalists in Greece. On Apr. 5, 2012, Mario Lolos, the president of the Greek Photojournalists’ Union, was covering an anti-government rally on Syntagma Square, downtown Athens, when a policeman allegedly hit him several […]

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