Turkey has the worst record on press freedom and freedom of expression among all member states of the Council of Europe, according to a judge at the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), which operates under the Council’s auspices.  The Council of Europe has 47 members and includes all sovereign states with territory in Europe, […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today called on authorities in Ukraine to fully investigate Wednesday night’s stabbing death of photojournalist Vitaliy Rozvadovsky in Kiev. Voice of America reported that Rozvadovsky, a reporter with the Ukrainian weekly 2000, was attacked at the entrance to a Kiev building in what official media have described as a personal […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) named South African editor and publisher Raymond Louw a World Press Freedom Hero earlier this year in recognition of his long-time struggle for press freedom and journalists’ rights. Louw – the editor and publisher of the private circulation current affairs weekly Southern Africa Report until early 2011, when he sold […]

The International Press Institute (IPI), following a three-day visit to Istanbul and Ankara, has joined with other international groups in demanding that Turkey release imprisoned journalists. The groups did so in a joint a statement at the close of the 22-24 November visit, during which they observed the first hearing in a criminal case against […]