The Media Freedom Rapid Response (MFRR) partners strongly condemn the verbal and physical attack on Ana Raičković, editor of the daily Pobjeda, as well as the attack on her family members. The MFRR partners welcome the swift reaction of the Montenegro Basic State Prosecutor’s Office (ODT), which identified and detained four suspects on charges of […]

The IPI global network is alarmed by the repression of independent journalists in Azerbaijan, the recent scale of which is unsettling even in the context of the country’s grim political reality. The intensity of this repression – and the impunity for violence against journalists – is all the more striking as the COP29 global climate […]

The Vienna-based International Press Institute (IPI) has teamed up with Croatian fact-checking outlet Faktograf and German daily taz to launch an innovative platform documenting disinformation campaigns targeting journalists and media houses in Europe. The Observatory of Disinformation Narratives Against the Media is part of Decoding the Disinformation Playbook, a joint initiative by the three organizations […]

Undersigned press freedom and human rights organizations call on the Dutch government to take more effective measures to transpose the EU anti-SLAPP Directive. While we welcome the swift steps taken to implement the Directive in the Netherlands, the current proposal does not do justice to the severity of Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation (SLAPPs) and […]