An International Press Institute (IPI) advocacy mission will travel to Caracas, Venezuela, on 15 November for four days of meetings with publishers, editors and journalists from a broad range of media, as well as government officials, opposition leaders, and representatives of civil society, to investigate the current press freedom climate in the country. Venezuela was […]

Unidentified assailants yesterday threw a military grenade at the offices of a popular Honduran radio station, injuring two people and damaging the radio’s main broadcast booth. The M-26-type device exploded around 10.30 p.m. local time on the roof of Radio HRN in Honduras’ capital of Tegucigalpa. According to an article on HRN’s website, the booth […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) calls for an immediate, transparent investigation into the 1 November brutal beating of Kyrgyz journalist Kubanychbek Joldoshev in Kyrgyzstan’s southern Osh region. Joldoshev, a correspondent for local newspaper Osh Shamy (“The Torch of Osh”), told Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) he was attacked after a taxi he was […]

The body of yet another slain Mexican journalist was found on Monday, less than a day after he had been kidnapped by a group of armed men, the Centre for Journalism and Public Ethics (CEPET), a local media organisation in Mexico, reported. The body of José Bladimir Antuna García was found behind a local hospital, […]