Leading Austrian newspapers are to carry on Thursday an IPI Austria insert calling on the Hungarian government to withdraw recently-passed media legislation heavily criticised by top EU politicians, the OSCE, journalists and a host of press freedom and freedom of expression groups. The insert – signed by the IPI Austria National Committee, Reporters without Borders […]

The South and East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), a network of editors, media executives and leading journalists from South East Europe and an affiliate of the International Press Institute (IPI), strongly condemns the threat allegedly made by a local businessman against reporter Visar Duriqi, a correspondent for the daily newspaper Infopress in Pristina. According to Duriqi, on […]

One of Tunisia’s best-known bloggers and anti-censorship activists was arrested on Thursday, according to Global Voices Advocacy. Slim Amamou, who contributes to the Global Voices website, was going to work around 1pm when his friends and colleagues lost trace of him. He revealed his position, at the Ministry of Interior, around 6pm, through a geolocation […]

World press freedom hero and co-founder of Velvet Revolution newspaper “Lidové Noviny” (People’s News) Jiri Dienstbier died of natural causes on Saturday at the age of 73. From 1969 until the end of Communism in Czechoslovakia in 1989, he was one of the major intellectuals associated with the dissident group Charter 77, a political and […]