A petition led by the International Press Institute (IPI) calling for the release of imprisoned Turkish investigative journalist and IPI World Press Freedom Hero Nedim Şener has already received over 3,000 signatures. On 5 January, an Istanbul court declined once again to release Şener, who has spent nearly 300 days in prison. Şener and nine […]

Unknown gunmen shot a Mexican journalist dead on Friday in the country’s first murder of a journalist this year. AP reported that journalist Raul Quirino Garza, a municipal employee who also worked for local weekly newspaper La Ultima Palabra, was killed on Friday in the state of Monterrey. A spokesman for the state detectives agency, […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) on Thursday expressed dismay at the alleged assault of a journalist by a Bangladeshi MP whom the reporter was attempting to interview over allegations that a decision by the MP, in his role as president of a school managing committee, to charge higher admission fees was in violation of the […]

The Vienna-based South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), a subsidiary of the International Press Institute (IPI), in 2011 registered 684 press freedom violations in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Belarus, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Greece, Hungary, Kosovo, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Poland, Romania, Serbia, the Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Turkey and Ukraine. Press freedom violations include […]