Colombian reporter Mary Luz Avendaño has been forced to leave Colombia due to threats against her life, according toThe Foundation for Freedom of the Press (FLIP), which reported this week that she had fled the country for an indefinite period of time. Avendaño worked as the correspondent of El Espectador newspaper in Medellín, in the […]

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 […]