The International Press Institute (IPI) joins the National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ) in condemning the continued harassment and censorship of Somali radio stations by the Islamist insurgent group Al-Shabaab. The militant group has reportedly imposed severe restrictions over local station Radio Jowhar, which is located in the middle Shabelle region. Jowhar is a former […]

A Turkish court yesterday sentenced the trigger-man in the 2007 murder of International Press Institute (IPI) World Press Freedom Hero Hrant Dink to almost 23 years in prison. A juvenile court in Istanbul imposed nearly the maximum sentence on ultranationalist Ogün Samast – who was 17 at the time of Dink’s killing – after convicting […]

The body of a Mexican journalist who disappeared Sunday from the Gulf coast state of Veracruz was found dead yesterday. Yolanda Ordaz de la Cruz, a police beat reporter for daily newspaper Notiver, was found with her throat slit behind the headquarters of another newspaper, Imagen. According to the International Press Institute (IPI)’s Death Watch, […]

Journalists were attacked by a mob of ZANU-PF supporters in Harare while covering a public debate on human rights legislation on Saturday, local news reports said. Levy Mukarati of the Financial Gazette, Tsvangirai Mukwazhi  of the Daily News, Nqaba Matshazi  of the Standard, Aaron Ufumeli of Newsday and John Cassim, a freelance photographer,  were allegedly […]