Umar Cheema is an award winning investigative reporter for The News, the largest English-language newspaper in Pakistan. In September 2010, he was kidnapped, tortured, blindfolded and handcuffed, and finally dumped outside Islamabad by masked men, who warned him not to speak about the incident. After his release, Cheema immediately went on television to tell his […]

Peruvian journalist Pedro Flores Silva, 36, died today after hovering between life and death since Tuesday night, when he was shot by a hooded individual while he was on his way home, the Press and Society Institute (IPYS) reported. On 6 September an unidentified person following the journalist, who was riding on a motorcycle, shot the television […]

IPI is alarmed to learn that Journalistes en Danger (JED) President Donat M’Baya Tshimanga and JED Secretary-General Tshivis Tshivuadi have received death threats in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in connection with their press freedom work. According to Reporters without Borders, Tshivuadi and Tshimanga received an Email at around 2 pm on 26 August […]

Legislative Decree No. 108, passed by the Syrian Cabinet on Sunday 28 August, will entrench government control over the media, criminalize criticism, and put media regulation in the direct control of the Syrian cabinet, according to IPI’s analysis of a summary published by the Syrian Arab News Agency. According to the SANA summary, the law […]