IPI is saddened by the Wednesday 2 September murder in El Salvador’s Tonacatepeque municipality of French-Spanish photojournalist and documentary-maker Christian Poveda. Police found Poveda’s body in a car in the small village of El Rosario, with multiple bullet wounds to the head. Poveda, who had closely followed the lives of El Salvador’s ‘Mara 18’ gang […]

Russia’s Supreme Court on Thursday granted a request by family members of murdered journalist Anna Politkovskaya to send the case back for further investigation, rather than immediately retry three individuals acquitted of the killing earlier this year. Politkovskaya, a special correspondent at Russia’s fiercely independent Novaya Gazeta newspaper, was gunned down in her apartment block […]

Unidentified gunmen opened fire at around 1am local time on Wednesday at the editorial offices of the Coahuila-based daily Siglo de Torreón, according to the newspaper. There were no reports of any injuries. Witnesses describe two assailants on motorcycles opening fire on the building’s façade, according to local news reports. The assault shattered the building’s […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) calls for a transparent investigation into the 14 August murder of Aaj TV correspondent Sadiq Bacha Khan, who was gunned down in broad daylight on his way to work in Mardan, a town in the restive North West Frontier Province of Pakistan. Khan was a former president of the Mardan […]