Following high-level meetings with key media stakeholders this week, the International Press Institute (IPI) is encouraged by recent steps Azerbaijan’s government and the country’s Press Council have taken to improve the condition of journalists in that country. IPI Director Alison Bethel McKenzie and IPI Press Freedom Manager Anthony Mills are currently in Azerbaijan to hold […]

Attacks on journalists and an effort to stifle communications continue on Libya’s tenth day of massive anti-regime protests, despite the arrival of foreign journalists into the country. Colonel Muammar Qaddafi and his regime’s supporters are using live ammunition and fighter planes to deter protestors in the capital city of Tripoli, while in Benghazi, the anti-regime […]

Approximately three weeks after Vietnamese investigative journalist, Le Hoang Hung, died following an arson attack, the journalist’s wife, Tran Thi Thuy Lieu, confessed to the murder, according to local news reports in Vietnam. Vietnamese police reportedly said yesterday that Lieu confessed that she poured petrol on her husband while he was sleeping and set him […]

Abdost Rind, 27, was shot and killed by unidentified gunmen while returning home from work in Turbat, Balochistan province, on 18 February. Rind, a reporter with the Daily Eagle, an Urdu-language newspaper, was shot four times before the assailants escaped on a motorcycle. He died immediately. He is the second journalist to be murdered in […]