The murder of Lasantha Wickremetunge, known for his exposure of high level corruption and wrongdoings, is a shocking reminder of the dangers facing Sri Lanka’s courageous journalists, for whom death is all too often the ultimate form of censorship. Wickremetunge, editor of The Sunday Leader, was shot near Colombo by unknown gunmen riding a motorcycle […]

Omar Harqous, a television journalist with Future News, a Beirut-based news channel, was attacked on Thursday, 27 November, while covering a demonstration by supporters of the Syrian Social Nationalist Party. The demonstrators were attempting to prevent the municipality authorities from removing political posters. Harqous had identified himself as a journalist to the demonstrators, and the […]

A high-level IPI mission will visit Dhaka, Bangladesh, from 28 November to 2 December to meet with government representatives, the political parties running in the elections, as well as with editors, journalists, and representatives of civil society. Elections, currently scheduled for 29 December, could represent the beginning of a new, more democratic era in the […]

Your Excellencies, The Vienna-based South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), a network of editors, media executives and leading journalists from South East Europe and an affiliate of the International Press Institute (IPI), is deeply alarmed about the brutal attack on Dusan Miljus, a journalist for Jutarnji list, a Croatian daily. According to information before SEEMO, […]