Today, the International Press Institute (IPI) with 15 other human rights and freedom of expression organizations published a joint letter to Charles Michel, President of the European Council and Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission, to ensure that improvement in fundamental rights and the rule of law are at the heart of […]

The Hong Kong pro-democracy tabloid newspaper Apple Daily has announced that it will halt print and digital operations amid unrelenting pressure from the Hong Kong and Chinese authorities. The final print edition will be distributed Thursday, June 24, the Hong Kong Free Press website reported today. Apple Daily’s digital edition will go offline on Saturday. […]

The IPI global network today called on the authorities in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh to immediately arrest and hold to account those responsible for the killing of Chennakeshavalu, a TV reporter. According to media reports, Chennakeshavalu, a reporter for a local television channel EV5, was stabbed to death on the night of August […]

For Matthew Caruana Galizia, this was personal. Almost eight years earlier, in 2013, a whistleblower had approached his mother, the celebrated Maltese investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, with information on Malta’s controversial scheme to sell EU citizenship. Daphne was the first Maltese journalist to investigate the government’s plan to allow the sale of passports as […]