A Reuters cameraman was among at least 21 people killed in clashes between anti-government protesters and security forces in Thailand’s capital, Bangkok, on Saturday. Hiro Muramoto, 43, a Japanese national who had been employed with Reuters’ Tokyo bureau for the past fifteen years, was reporting on the violence that gripped Bangkok over the weekend, when […]

The Gambian founder and managing director of Jollof News Online, Yusupha Cham, who lives in exile in Birmingham, UK, told IPI on Wednesday that he has received three emailed death threats since the beginning of the year. Copies of the emails were forwarded to the IPI Secretariat in Vienna. The first email, from a Hotmail […]

A Congolese journalist was shot dead by men in military fatigues, in front of his home in the northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo town of Beni, on Monday, according to two Congolese journalists who knew him well. Nicodème Bakoleta, the director of Radio Soleil, a new radio station in Beni, said well-known cameraman Patient Chibeya […]

Following the release of a video by Swedish whistleblower website Wikileaks showing the indiscriminate shooting of civilians, including two Reuters journalists, by US Army helicopters, IPI calls on the US government to investigate the actions of the army personnel involved. The video, which was released on Youtube and the Wikileaks website on Tuesday, involves footage filmed from an Apache helicopter, and […]