The joint open letter below was drafted at the initiative of the Steering Committee of the Israeli Palestinian Journalists Forum (IPI-IPJF) of the International Press Institute, the global free media network based in Vienna, Austria.  The IPI-IPJF, which is comprised of journalists from Israel and the Palestinian Territories, met for the first time in Vienna, […]

Four Italian journalists who were kidnapped on Wednesday and whose driver was killed are now being held by pro-Qaddafi militants in Tripoli, according to news reports. The Italian journalists were abducted just after thirty-five journalists who had been trapped in the Rixos hotel for days were finally freed. Unknown men stopped their vehicle near Zawiya, […]

There has been a worrying spike in violence against journalists in Pakistan, specifically in the restive provinces of Swat and Baluchistan. On Sunday, 14 August, Muneer Shakir, a correspondent for Waqt News was gunned down on his way home, in the town of Khuzdar in Baluchistan. He died in hospital. Although Shakir had not reported […]

Radio show host Niel Jimena, 42, was killed on Negros Island yesterday in a motorcycle chase by two gunmen, AFP and local news reports said. He was reportedly slain near his home in E.B. Magalona town after a car chase. Jimena had hosted a twice-weekly radio show called “Judge” on DYRI-RMN, on which he frequently […]