Latest News on Journalist Safety and Impunity

Turkish newspaper’s Europe offices attacked

The International Press Institute (IPI) today condemned attacks yesterday on the offices of Turkish-language newspaper Zaman in Paris and in the German city of Cologne allegedly carried out by supporters of the banned Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK). Zaman reported that a group of nearly 15 PKK supporters wearing masks entered its Paris office and threatened […]

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Medios regionales están bajo asedio en América Latina

Read this article in English En un pequeño poblado en la provincia argentina de La Pampa, el editor de un periódico fue agredido el 19 de enero por la esposa y el hijo del vice-intendente local, luego de haber publicado un artículo que criticaba al gobierno municipal. Un periódico comunitario de 26 años de edad […]

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Regional media under siege in Latin America

Lea este artículo en español In a tiny town in Argentina’s sparsely populated La Pampa province, a newspaper editor was assaulted on 19 January by the wife and son of the town’s deputy mayor after publishing a piece critical of the municipal government. A 26-year-old community newspaper in Porto Alegre, Brazil, with a circulation of […]

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Brazilian editor gunned down

A Brazilian journalist was shot dead late Sunday by two unknown assailants on a motorcycle in the town of Ponta Porã, near the Paraguayan border. Paulo Roberto Carlos Rodrigues, who went by the name Paulo Rocaro, was driving home through the center of Ponta Porã at approximately 23:30 when the attack occurred, according to Mercosulnews.com, […]

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