Two days after parliamentary elections in Iraq marked by a voter turnout of over 60% despite attacks that killed 38 people, IPI calls on any new Iraqi government to respect media freedom In the run-up to the 7 March polling, the Iraqi Communications and Media Commission (CMC) attempted to impose new restrictions on media outlets […]

Miklos Haraszti will end his six-year term of office as the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media on 10 March 2010. Haraszti, a Hungarian writer, journalist, human rights advocate and university professor co-founded the Hungarian Democratic Opposition Movement and was editor of the Beszélo journal, which was influential in shaping Hungary’s transition to democracy. […]

A TV broadcaster was shot dead in an apparent attack on a fellow journalist in the Honduran capital of Tegucigalpa on Monday 1 March, according to media reports. Joseph Hernández Ochoa, 24, a journalism student at the University of Honduras, and a former entertainment presenter on the privately-owned Canal 51 TV station, was travelling with […]

A police officer who murdered an opposition journalist in August 2008 has been freed from jail after serving just three months of a two year sentence. Ibragim Yevloyev, a senior police officer in Russia’s volatile southern republic of Ingushetia, was found guilty of “reckless homicide resulting from improper performance of professional duties” in December 2009 […]