Trial starts on Tuesday in Istanbul for four journalists and executives from independent daily Sözcü who were targeted for arrest in May on charges that the paper’s July 15, 2016 report on where President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan was vacationing showed complicity in the coup attempt that broke out that night. Izmir correspondent Gökmen Ulu, online […]

At least 42 journalists around the world have lost their lives this year thus far as a consequence of their work, the International Press Institute (IPI) said today to mark the annual International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists on Nov. 2. IPI’s Death Watch, which since 1997 has tallied journalists deliberately targeted […]

IPI Executive Board Chair John Yearwood was in Turkey today to show solidarity with independent daily newspaper Cumhuriyet and with journalists and administrators from the paper who are currently on trial over accusations that the paper’s reporting lent support to terrorists. Yearwood visited the newspaper’s offices in Istanbul, where he met with senior editors and […]

The government of the northwestern Indian state of Rajasthan must reverse a “draconian” ordinance that bars the media from covering allegations of wrongdoing involving public officials in the absence of a government-sanctioned criminal investigation, the International Press Institute (IPI) said today in letters sent to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje. Passed on Sept. […]