The International Press Institute (IPI) today condemned Turkey’s closure of pro-Kurdish newspaper Özgür Gündem for allegedly spreading propaganda on behalf of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), emphasising that reporting on terrorists is not the same as endorsing them. An Istanbul court yesterday ordered the newspaper temporarily suspended, saying that it repeatedly spread PKK propaganda […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) yesterday joined human rights defenders in a call on St. Vincent and the Grenadines to repeal a new cybercrime law that they said poses “a serious threat to freedom of the press, the free flow of online information, and public debate”. The new law, which the Caribbean nation’s Parliament approved […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) has joined 25 other members of the IFEX global free expression network in calling on Bangladesh to grant journalist Shafik Rehman compassionate release due to his deteriorating health. Rehman was arrested in Dhaka on April 16, 2016 on suspicion of seditious activity, reportedly in relation to an alleged plot to […]

Unknown gunmen killed Pakistani journalist Mukarram Khan Aatif yesterday in a mosque near Peshawar. Aatif, who had worked as a journalist for different media outlets for over 15 years, was a correspondent for Voice of America’s Pashto-language Deewa Radio and the Urdu-language television channel Dunya TV at the time of his death. Aatif had recently […]