Latest News on Journalist Safety and Impunity

SEEMO condemns gun attack, death threat against Turkish-Cypriot journalist Sener Levent

The South and East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), a network of editors, media executives and leading journalists in South East and Central Europe and an affiliate of the International Press Institute (IPI), condemns the gun attack and death threat against Turkish-Cypriot journalist Sener Levent, editor of the  newspaper Afrika. On 25 February 2011, unknown attackers […]

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Diplomats, rights groups strongly condemn Chinese police harassment of foreign journalists in Beijing

European and US diplomats in Beijing, as well as journalists’ groups around the world, have strongly criticised China’s latest clampdown on journalists. “It is unacceptable that journalists are harassed and manhandled while seeking to cover a peaceful protest -which ultimately did not even take place,” said IPI Director Alison Bethel McKenzie. “Journalists working in China […]

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Another journalist killed in Iraq as security forces crack down on media

An Iraqi journalist reporting for the satellite television station al-Ittijah, whose name remains unknown, was among those killed Thursday in a blast that targeted a celebration in the city of Ramadi, Aswat al Iraq news agency reported today. The killing occurred only a week after another Iraqi journalist was shot dead in Mosul by a group of […]

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Journalists suffer in continued Uganda election violence

Six journalists were injured in attacks in Kampala, the capital of Uganda, while they were covering the mayoral elections at a polling station on Wednesday. The assailants are believed to be supporters of Peter Ssematimba, the candidate for the ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM). The journalists were attacked by a mob armed with sticks with […]

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