The members of the International Press Institute, meeting at the 60th annual IPI General Assembly at the IPI World Congress 2011 in Taipei, Taiwan, on 26 September 2011, unanimously passed  seven resolutions condemning serious violations of press freedom around the world. Focal points of the resolutions were: -A request for the repeal of criminal defamation […]

Journalist Li Xiang, 30, of Luoyang Television Station in Henan province was found stabbed to death on Monday 19 September, online news reports say. Li had been stabbed more than ten times, and his computer bag was missing from the scene of the crime, reports say. It is believed that the reporter had been investigating […]

On 7 September, Peruvian journalist Pedro Alonso Flores Silva was shot twice on his way home, in the province of Casma, 14 hours away from the nation’s capital, Lima. He was intercepted by a hooded man who attacked him. He died two days later in hospital. According to Flores’ wife, the attack came three months […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today welcomed the European Parliament resolution of 15 September in which the body called on Eritrea to “to lift the ban on the country’s independent press and to immediately release the independent journalists and all others who have been jailed simply for exercising their right to freedom of expression.” The […]