The International Press Institute (IPI) today condemned the brutal assault on an American freelance journalist and a British human rights activist in the capital of Azerbaijan, Baku. Amanda Erickson and Celia Davies Carys were followed to their home at around midnight on 15 June and attacked by four unidentified men outside the women’s apartment building, […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today condemned the attack on the offices of news agency Agence France Presse (AFP) in Jordan’s capital, Amman, on 15 June. A group of 10 unidentified attackers broke into the premises and destroyed furniture and equipment, AFP reported. “Ten men armed with sticks broke into the office and started to […]

Violence escalated this week against journalists in Pakistan with the deaths of one journalist in a bomb blast in Peshawar. Asfandyar Abid Naveed, a journalist with Akhbar-e-Khyber, was killed in the blasts, which occurred on Saturday at a market in the capital of the Khyber Pankhtunkhwa region of Pakistan. Two smaller blasts, one at a […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today condemned the killing of an Indian journalist in Mumbai on 11 June. Jyotirmoy Dey was killed on the spot after being shot at several times by four men in a carefully planned operation in broad daylight, IPI’s India National Committee reported. Dey was the special investigations editor at the […]