The International Press Institute (IPI) on Friday completed a week-long press freedom mission to Italy during which it met with a broad array of media stakeholders, politicians and government representatives, and concluded that while the media in Italy is marked by a strong degree of freedom, there are pockets of serious concern. IPI noted that […]

Azerbaijan’s highest court on Thursday upheld a 22 April decision by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), ordering the immediate release of Eynulla Fatullayev, an Azeri journalist who was sentenced in 2007 to eight-and-a-half years in prison for defamation and “fomenting terrorism” through his articles. As IPI reported at the time, the Court voted […]

Newspaper reporter Anatoly Adamchuk was beaten unconscious on Monday, making him the second journalist to be brutally attacked in Russia within 48 hours. Adamchuk, of Zhukovskie Vesti, was beaten by two unidentified men, while leaving his office in the early morning. He was treated for head trauma at the hospital.Russia’s Interior Ministry has meanwhile alleged […]

The need to reform Italy’s public broadcaster RAI and to promote editorial independence in the country’s newspapers were some of the major problems identified by representatives of media and journalists associations with whom an IPI delegation met on Tuesday in Rome. The visit of the IPI delegation, including IPI Vice-Chairman and former Assistant Managing Editor […]