The International Press Institute (IPI) today called on authorities in Ukraine to fully investigate Wednesday night’s stabbing death of photojournalist Vitaliy Rozvadovsky in Kiev. Voice of America reported that Rozvadovsky, a reporter with the Ukrainian weekly 2000, was attacked at the entrance to a Kiev building in what official media have described as a personal […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) named South African editor and publisher Raymond Louw a World Press Freedom Hero earlier this year in recognition of his long-time struggle for press freedom and journalists’ rights. Louw – the editor and publisher of the private circulation current affairs weekly Southern Africa Report until early 2011, when he sold […]

The International Press Institute (IPI), following a three-day visit to Istanbul and Ankara, has joined with other international groups in demanding that Turkey release imprisoned journalists. The groups did so in a joint a statement at the close of the 22-24 November visit, during which they observed the first hearing in a criminal case against […]

As Gambians went to the polls last week to vote, incumbent President Yahya Jammeh rejected international criticism over the country’s press freedom record, which, since Jammeh took power in a 1994 coup, has been characterised by the intimidation, jailing and torture of journalists, and control of the media. “When they talk about rights, freedom of […]