In the final stretch of a bitter election campaign, presidential candidate Petr Pavel was forced to assure voters that he was still alive. Reports of the former general’s death may not have prevented him romping to victory in the Czech Republic’s January presidential election, but they were just one example of the “alarming” levels of […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) joins its partners in the Media Freedom Rapid Response (MFRR) in today expressing dismay over the recent court ruling involving a SLAPP lawsuit against independent Greek media outlet Alterthess and one of its journalists, Stavroula Poulimeni. Using the MFRR Legal Support fund, our consortium will help provide funding to cover […]

The IPI global network condemns the Vietnamese government’s decision to sentence journalist Nguyen Lan Thang to six years in prison. Judicial authorities must immediately release Nguyen Lan Thang and ensure Vietnamese courts are not used to stifle press freedom.  Nguyen Lan Thang was convicted on April 12 by the Hanoi People’s Court of spreading “anti-state […]

This article, republished by IPI, was written by Serbian journalist and IPI World Press Freedom Hero Veran Matić, chair of Serbia’s Commission for the Investigation of Murders of Journalists It’s Easter again, a holiday that I associate more with the murder of Slavko Ćuruvija than with a family holiday. Eight years after Ćuruvija‘s murder in […]