The International Press Institute (IPI) today call for a Turkish Constitutional Court ruling ordering the release of two jailed journalists to be implemented immediately. The Constitutional Court said Thursday that the rights of journalists Mehmet Altan and Şahin Alpay, who have spent more than a year behind bars, had been violated. The decision was welcomed as […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today called for the release of two Reuters reporters in Myanmar who have been held since Dec. 12 under the country’s Official Secrets Act. The two Reuters reporters, Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo, appeared in court in Yangon today where prosecutors officially filed charges against them. Due back in court […]

When Miloš Zeman brandished a gun marked “For Journalists” at a press conference in October, it was just the latest in a long line of hostile messages directed at the press. But contrary to the rhetoric, and the international headlines it is designed to generate — in another memorable incident Zeman joked with Vladimir Putin that […]

None of the four still-imprisoned representatives of Turkey’s independent newspaper Cumhuriyet were released following a hearing yesterday that international observers widely condemned as “unfair”. “Let’s be loud and clear in condemning this judicial charade,” Swiss journalist and vice chair of the International Press Institute (IPI)’s Executive Committee Markus Spillmann said following the close of the […]