Latest News on Journalist Safety and Impunity

IFEX-TMG concerned by attacks on journalists

The statement below was issued by the Tunisia Monitoring Group, a coalition of over 20 free expression and press freedom organizations including IPI that are grouped under the umbrella of the International Freedom of Expression eXchange (IFEX). IFEX-TMG concerned by attacks on journalists and academics Despite promises by Tunisia’s new government to uphold free expression, […]

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Mexican journalist murdered

Unknown gunmen shot a Mexican journalist dead on Friday in the country’s first murder of a journalist this year. AP reported that journalist Raul Quirino Garza, a municipal employee who also worked for local weekly newspaper La Ultima Palabra, was killed on Friday in the state of Monterrey. A spokesman for the state detectives agency, […]

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Bangladeshi MP allegedly assaults journalist seeking comment

The International Press Institute (IPI) on Thursday expressed dismay at the alleged assault of a journalist by a Bangladeshi MP whom the reporter was attempting to interview over allegations that a decision by the MP, in his role as president of a school managing committee, to charge higher admission fees was in violation of the […]

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SEEMO issues 2011 press freedom overview

The Vienna-based South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), a subsidiary of the International Press Institute (IPI), in 2011 registered 684 press freedom violations in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Belarus, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Greece, Hungary, Kosovo, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Poland, Romania, Serbia, the Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Turkey and Ukraine. Press freedom violations include […]

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