Lesen Sie diesen Artikel auf Deutsch While the topic of online abuse – against journalists, but also against third parties – may have gained increased media attention in 2016, Austrian media outlets have struggled with the problem for some time now. In recent years, all media outlets with a digital presence have had to think […]

Turkish prosecutors today demanded lengthy prison terms for journalists and executives of independent newspaper Cumhuriyet in long-delayed indictment that the International Press Institute (IPI) rejected as “nonsense”. The indictment, which focuses on former Cumhuriyet Editor-in-Chief Can Dündar, reportedly accuses the journalists and executives of “membership of an armed terrorist organisation” and “helping an armed terrorist organisation […]

In Turkey, words such as “traitor” and “terrorist” appear frequently in violent threats directed against journalists on social media as part of campaigns led by supporters of the country’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) . IPI’s interactive database of online abuse against journalists, part of its Ontheline programme, collected 176 instances of violent threats […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today joined international condemnation of Belarusian police’s Friday morning raid on independent broadcaster Belsat TV in Minsk that followed the station’s coverage of nationwide protests against a tax on the unemployed. Authorities reportedly detained one employee, a videographer, and confiscated camera and audio equipment in the raid, which Belsat’s head […]