As U.S. troops continue to hand power over to Iraqi authorities in Iraq, IPI calls on the Iraqi government to protect press freedom in the country. Iraq remains the most dangerous country in the world for journalists – who now face a new threat in the form of a draft law published in Iraq on […]

The retrial of four men recently acquitted of crimes connected to the 2006 murder of Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya will go ahead, a Moscow court decided today, despite requests from both the journalist’s family and the prosecution to have the case returned to the Prosecutor-General for further investigation. On 19 February 2009, a Moscow jury […]

Around 30 armed, pro-government activists raided the premises of Venezuelan private broadcaster Globovision during a live news broadcast shortly before 13.00 on Monday 3 August, exploding two tear gas canisters and injuring four people in the process. Footage taken at the scene appears to show the assailants – who were dressed in red berets and […]

Shiva Oli, a Nepali journalist reported missing by his wife after he left his home in the Doti district in the far western region of Nepal on 25 July, was located on Tuesday morning when he contacted the police, the regional coordinator for the Far Western Region of the Federation of Nepali Journalists, Manmohan Swar, […]