A group of armed policeman have intimidated the family of the editor of the Zambian Watchdog news website, the editor told IPI on Friday. According to the editor, police went to his hometown and threatened to beat his 82 year-old grandfather if the man refused to reveal the whereabouts of his grandson. At the same […]

The International Press Institute deplores the brutal murder of María Elizabeth Macías Castro, 39. The journalist was abducted on Friday, 23 September, and her body was found the next day in Nuevo Laredo city, in the border state of Tamaulipas.  According to news reports, she was decapitated and left near a monument to Christopher Columbus […]

Umar Cheema is an investigative journalist for The News, the largest English-language newspaper in Pakistan. He was awarded the Daniel Pearl Journalism Fellowship in 2008, during which he worked at The New York Times. In September 2010, Cheema was abducted, beaten, purposely humiliated, photographed against his will and dumped six hours later outside Islamabad. Immediately after […]

Rodney Pinder is the director of International News Safety Institute (INSI), an independent, non-profit organization aimed at ensuring the safety of journalists. Pinder is a former senior foreign correspondent and news executive for Thomson Reuters. IPI: INSI has been described as a unique organization. What makes it different from other press freedom organizations such as […]