Last week was not a positive one for media freedom in European Union. On Tuesday, February 9, a court in Budapest approved the decision of the government-controlled Hungarian Media Council to block the automatic extension of the broadcast license for the country’s last independent radio station, Klubrádió, dealing a damaging blow to what remains of […]

Slovenia’s Government Communication Office (UKOM) must stop denying public health officials and ministers clearance to give interviews with media and halt wider attempts to control news coverage during the pandemic, the International Press Institute (IPI) said today. IPI, a global network of editors, media executives and leading journalists for press freedom, also urged UKOM to […]

The International Press Institute (IPI), a global network of editors, media executives and leading journalists for press freedom, today welcomed the release of Al Jazeera journalist and IPI member Mahmoud Hussein from an Egyptian prison after more than four years. The Doha-based journalist had been held in Cairo’s notorious Tora prison after being arbitrarily detained […]

On Monday 8 February, a Gothenburg court will deliver its verdict in the trial of journalist Henrik Evertsson and camera operator Linus Andersson for their documentary about the sinking of the ‘MS Estonia’. Charged with violating the burial site of the wreck, they face up to two years in prison. The partners of the Media Freedom Rapid Response (MFRR) […]