The International Press Institute (IPI) today released a report on the Joint International Emergency Press Freedom Mission to Turkey undertaken last week by a broad coalition of international free expression and press freedom groups. The report builds on mission participants’ finding that escalating pressure on media in the period between parliamentary elections in June and […]

More than 50 leading international media editors have written an open letter to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan raising profound concerns about the deteriorating conditions for press freedom in Turkey in the run up to the elections. The letter and a full list of signatories follow below. Signatories include Dean Baquet, executive editor, the New York […]

A decision by South Korean prosecutors to seek jail time for a Japanese journalist accused of defaming the South Korean president risks chilling media coverage of political figures, the International Press Institute (IPI) said today. Prosecutors announced on Monday that they would request an 18-month prison sentence for Tatsuya Kato, former Seoul bureau chief of […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today expressed alarm over a proposed law in Kenya that stipulates heavy fines or jail terms for journalists and others deemed to have defamed the country’s Parliament. Members of the National Assembly, the lower house of the Kenyan Parliament, passed the Powers and Privileges Bill on Oct. 14. Under Clause […]