A journalist was killed on Tuesday night in Peshawar, in northwestern Pakistan, after an explosive device detonated when the journalist entered his vehicle. Nasrullah Afridi, a correspondent for Pakistan television and the leading Urdu newspaper, Daily Mashriq, also served as president of the Tribal Union of Journalists (TUJ), the Khyber Agency Unit, according to local […]

Press freedom in Russia received a major boost after a Moscow court sentenced an extreme nationalist to life in prison for killing a trainee journalist and a well-known lawyer, news reports said. According to The Guardian, Russian neo-Nazi Nikita Tikhonov was sentenced for shooting Anastasiya Baburova, 25, a trainee journalist at the Novaya Gazeta newspaper […]

The body of a missing Pakistani journalist was found in the southwestern region of the country on 28 April, according to local media reports. Independent investigations have so far ruled out the possibility of his death being work-related. According to the Express Tribune, the bullet-riddled bodies of Sadiq Baloch, a member of Human Rights Commission […]

IPI Press Freedom Adviser for Africa and the Middle East Naomi Hunt is speaking at the  Oviedo Press Association World Press Freedom Day Event in Oviedo, Spain, on threats facing press freedom in the Middle East. Her speech is below. Good evening Ladies and Gentlemen.  Thank you very much to the Press Club of Oviedo […]