International Press Institute (IPI)

Bulgarian journalist Genka Shikerova’s car was set on fire on 16 September in what is suspected to have been arson. Shikerova told viewers of her show on Tuesday morning that the vehicle was parked in front in Sofia when it was set ablaze and that the vehicle was destroyed.

With the world focused on the country’s chemical weapons stockpile, kidnapped and missing media workers in Syria must not be forgotten.

Slovak authorities should stop pressuring a Slovak journalist to divulge his source for reports on wiretapped conversations between alleged organised crime figures and senior police officials, the International Press Institute (IPI) and its affiliate, the South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), say.

The Parliament of Grenada has approved legislation that would punish the sending of “offensive” electronic communications with up to one year in prison, Grenadian media reported.

Three weeks before parliamentary elections in Cameroon, the government’s National Communications Council (NCC) has ordered the suspension of 11 media organisations, accusing them of unprofessionalism and unethical behaviour.

A BBC Tamil journalist was questioned by the anti-terror police in relation to a telephone conversation he had with two Tamil prisoners in Colombo, Sri Lanka.

On 4 September 2013, an NGO-director and former government employee cursed at a photographer and reporter and subsequently confiscated their equipment.

The Veracruz Supreme Court’s decision to free Jorge Antonio Hernández, previously imprisoned for the murder of journalist Regina Martínez, was courageous and important. Courageous, given the state government’s authoritarian tendencies; important, because it gives officials a chance to find out who really killed Regina Martínez and why.