Over the past five years, Věra Jourová, Vice-President of the European Commission for Values and Transparency, has been leading the Commission’s efforts to strengthen media freedom under its Democracy Action Plan. This has resulted in an unprecedented array of legislative initiatives through the completion of the European Media Freedom Act, the Anti-SLAPP Directive, the issuing […]

The IPI global network calls on Egyptian authorities to immediately drop charges against Lina Attalah, editor-in-chief of independent news outlet Mada Masr, a past recipient of the IPI-IMS Free Media Pioneer award. Additionally, Egypt’s Council for Media Regulation (SCMR) to stop censoring the critical press. Attalah was questioned by prosecutors for nearly two hours on […]

The IPI global network calls on the authorities in Kwara State, Nigeria to stop using Nigeria’s Cybercrimes Act and the penal code to target journalists and undermine media freedom.  Earlier this month, on February 6, four journalists from the online news site Informant247 – Adisa-Jaji Azeez, Salihu Ayatullahi, Salihu Shola Taofeek, and Abdulrahman Taye Damilola […]

The IPI global network today joins 16 other press freedom and human rights groups in a letter to European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, calling on the Commission to take urgent action to address the deterioration of media freedom and the rule of law in Greece and its impact on fundamental rights. Threats to […]