The International Press Institute (IPI) today welcomed a decision by prosecutors in Slovakia to drop criminal libel charges against journalist Dušan Karolyi. Slovakia’s General Prosecutor, Jaromír Čižnár, announced the move last week after previously committing to review Karolyi’s case in early September following outcry from regional press freedom groups, including IPI’s Slovak National Committee. The […]

Amid major protests that began last month in the streets of Hong Kong and that call into question issues of freedom of expression, the Hong Kong Journalists Association (HKJA ) has said that press freedom in the autonomous region have deteriorated and have called 2014 “the darkest [year] for press freedom for several decades.” In […]

The Central European Initiative (CEI) and the South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), an affiliate of the International Press Institute (IPI), in special partnership with the German political foundation Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS), have announced the winners of the “CEI SEEMO Award for Outstanding Merits in Investigative Journalism” 2014: Brankica Stanković in the category “Professional Journalists”; and […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) welcomes the adoption last week of a United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC) resolution on safety of journalists, which highlights states as primary duty-bearers when it comes to preventing and halting attacks against journalists. This is the second time that the HRC, which includes representatives from 47 UN member states, […]