One student was killed in the Venezuelan city of Merida on Monday in violence that erupted during protests against the government’s order to cable networks to stop broadcasting RCTV Internacional – which is opposed to Venezuela’s president, Hugo Chavez. Nine police officers were injured. The cable providers dropped the broadcaster on Sunday. Chavez forced RCTV […]

Three years ago today, a young man approached renowned Turkish-Armenian newspaper editor Hrant Dink in an Istanbul street, and shot him dead. Today – two-and-a-half years into the trial of the alleged gunman and his accomplices – justice has yet to be served in the brutal murder. “The Hrant Dink murder case has been a […]

A district mayor in Peru allegedly burst into a radio presenter’s booth during a live broadcast on Thursday, physically attacking the presenter and damaging his equipment, the Lima-based media freedom monitor, Instituto Prensa y Sociedad (IPYS), reported on Friday. The mayor, Ángel Adrián Palomino Ramos of the Ica region’s Pachacutec district, was apparently annoyed by ‘Radio La […]

The Vienna-based South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), a regional organisation of editors, media executives, owners of media and leading journalists from South East and Central Europe, and an affiliate of the International Press Institute (IPI), strongly condemns the murder of Andis Hadjicostis, CEO of the family-controlled Dias media group and Sigma TV in Nicosia, […]