Latest News on Journalist Safety and Impunity

Los secretos de un gigante

Lea en inglés Brasil está brillando. El país Latinoamericano más grande y poblado recientemente sobrepasó al Reino Unido para convertirse en la sexta economía mundial. Además, se prevé que suba una posición más para finales de 2012. La producción petrolera se ha disparado, mientras la pobreza ha tocado su nivel más bajo en la historia. […]

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SEEMO condemns pressure on television news crew in Kosovo

The Vienna-based South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), an affiliate of the International Press Institute (IPI), condemns the latest pressure against reporters of the “Justice in Kosovo” TV program. On 6 March 2012, the mayor of Prizren, a town 60 kilometres away from Pristina, Kosovo’s capital, allegedly threatened the TV crew of the program “Justice […]

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Syria should return Adem Özköse and Hamit Coşkun to Turkey as soon as possible

The Syrian conflict continues and the country remains a black hole for the mainstream media, with foreign news outlets relying heavily on accounts from activists and citizen reporters to provide news and images, and reports from the correspondents who bravely manage to cross into the country. Two Turkish journalists who had been missing since Sunday, […]

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Colombian radio journalist gunned down

Lea en español A Colombian radio journalist and former mayor was shot and killed Thursday after being lured from his office in the city of Dosquebradas, approximately 170 kilometers southeast of Bogotá. A regional police commander told local media that Argemiro Cárdenas Agudelo, 56, had received a phone call early Thursday afternoon while working inside […]

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