A year after the massacre of 57 people, among them 32 journalists, in the Phillipines province of Maguindanao, justice has yet to be fully served. The killings are alleged to have constituted part of a suspected plot orchestrated by the powerful Ampatuan clan to prevent a rival’s attempt to gain political power. The clan had […]

Respected Russian journalist Oleg Kashin, who was attacked near his house on November 6, yesterday gave evidence to investigators on his attack. Moscow-based news website Lifenews released a graphic video of the attack which left Kashin with a broken jaw, leg, fractured skull, and several crushed fingers. Doctors induced a coma. According to newspaper reports, […]

Newspaper reporter Anatoly Adamchuk was beaten unconscious on Monday, making him the second journalist to be brutally attacked in Russia within 48 hours. Adamchuk, of Zhukovskie Vesti, was beaten by two unidentified men, while leaving his office in the early morning. He was treated for head trauma at the hospital.Russia’s Interior Ministry has meanwhile alleged […]

Lebanese journalist and former television anchor for the Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation (LBC) May Chidiac, one of 60 “IPI World Press Freedom Heroes” honoured by the International Press Institute, spoke to Laura Pannasch at the IPI World Congress 2010 in Vienna. Even an assassination attempt in September 2005, in which she lost part of her left leg and left […]