Latest News on Journalist Safety and Impunity

Journalist Lumturie Blakaj physically assaulted in Kosovo

The South and East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), a network of editors, media executives and leading journalists from South, East and Central Europe and an affiliate of the International Press Institute (IPI), is deeply concerned about the physical assault on Lumturie Blakaj, journalist working for the daily newspaper Zeri, in Kosovo. According to Blakaj, she was attacked […]

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Zambia press freedom performance gets mixed reviews from local journalists

A year after President Michael Sata was elected in Zambia on promises to improve media freedom, his Patriotic Front party is patting itself on the back while some media workers remain sceptical about just how far the country has come. “My government’s agenda on the media is to ensure that it continuously challenges government to […]

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The perils of reporting in Sudan

As I kiss my baby before he falls asleep every night, my thoughts always return to Abdelrahman. My colleague has a boy the same age as mine, and a girl of two years old. But he hasn’t kissed them goodnight for two weeks now. Abdelrahman was arrested on October 30 by the security services in […]

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Opposition party cadres threaten to ‘burn and kill’ Zambian journalist

The Post newspaper’s assistant news editor George Chellah was threatened by a group of political party supporters while attending a United Party for National Development (UPND) press conference on Wednesday, 24 November in the Zambian capital, Lusaka, he told IPI by phone today. According to Chellah, he was personally invited to the UPND press conference […]

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