The International Press Institute (IPI), the world’s oldest global press freedom organisation with members from the world’s leading media outlets, addressed an open letter to Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych on Tuesday respectfully urging him to address a disturbing deterioration in press freedom over the last six months in Ukraine. President Yanukovych won election in February […]

Iranian journalist and dissident Akbar Ganji was today declared a World Press Freedom Hero by the International Press Institute (IPI), in recognition of his decades of work defending freedom of speech and equal rights for all, in the face of continued harassment and imprisonment. Often called ‘Iran’s most prominent political dissident’, Ganji spent six years […]

The South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), a network of editors, media executives and leading journalists in South East and Central Europe and an affiliate of the International Press Institute (IPI), is very pleased by several positive media developments in Serbia. SEEMO salutes the decision of the High Court in Nis, in a defamation case […]

Federal police in Mexico have arrested three suspected drug cartel members allegedly involved in the kidnapping of three Mexican journalists last, news reports said today. According to the Associated Press, the suspects, aged 23, 25, and 33, allegedly worked for the Sinaloa drug cartel in the city of Gomez Palacio in the Northern Mexican state […]