The International Press Institute (IPI) today joined international free expression defenders in condemning Russia’s move to stigmatise prominent Russian media freedom watchdog the Glasnost Defence Foundation (GDF) as a “foreign agent”. Russia’s Justice Ministry yesterday added GDF to its list of “foreign agents” under a 2012 law requiring non-profit organisations that receive foreign donations and […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today called on Jordan to repeal a new law reintroducing prison sentences as a potential punishment for journalists operating in the online sphere and for the head of the country’s Media Commission to follow through on a commitment to start a process to swap the country’s news website licensing requirement for a registration system.

فيينا في 19 تشرين الثاني/نوفمبر 2015 – دعا المعهد الدولي للصحافة (IPI) اليوم الأردن إلى إلغاء القانون الجديد الذي يقضي بإدخال التوقيف كعقوبة محتملة للصحفيين العاملين على الإنترنت ودعا أيضاً رئيس هيئة الإعلام إلى الالتزام ببدء عملية استبدال متطلبات ترخيص المواقع الإخبارية بنظام تسجيل.

Tickets may be sold out, but you can still catch tonight’s discussion on media freedom and democracy in Turkey as it moves beyond its second parliamentary election this year via livestream. The Montreal event, presented by the International Press Institute (IPI) and Concordia University’s Thinking Out Loud series, will bring together veteran Turkish journalist and […]