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 […]

Nine days after two clearly marked Vijesti company cars were set ablaze on 14 July 2011 in front of the National Security Agency in Podgorica, Montenegro, on 23 July 2011 another car belonging to the daily was torched. The car was parked in another location. The Vienna-based South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), an affiliate […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today said it is disturbed by the recent spike in violence against journalists in Honduras following the attempted murder of a daily newspaper manager – the third attack on a media employee in the country in the past two weeks. Manuel Acosta was driving home in the capital Tegucigalpa yesterday […]

News reporters working for Zambian local television station Muvi Television were on Monday brutally beaten, purportedly by supporters of the ruling Movement for Multi-Party Democracy (MMD) in Lusaka West.  Although the government has called for the prosecution of the perpetrators, IPI is concerned about a culture of impunity for political party supporters that those who […]