On July 9, Uzbekistan, Central Asia’s most populous nation, re-elected its president, in an atmosphere which local independent journalists describe as extremely constraining for their profession, limiting options for real political pluralism in Uzbekistan. President Shavkat Mirziyoyev was officially declared the winner of the race, receiving 87 percent of the vote, in an election described […]

In the past week alone, two journalists have been murdered in Mexico, a stark signal of the unabated crisis of journalist safety in the country, which the administration of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has failed to address. The IPI global network condemns the most recent killing of Nelson Matus Peña, urges authorities to conduct […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) is alarmed by a recent series of attacks by Israeli military forces on journalists covering military operations in the West Bank. IPI calls on the Israeli authorities to respect and protect journalists’ safety and to hold those responsible for attacks on journalists to account. The past several weeks have seen […]

The IPI global network condemns the July 11 sentencing of Lebanese journalist Dima Sadek to one year in prison for “slander, defamation, and promoting sectarianism” in a case brought against her by Gebran Bassil, leader of one of the country’s largest political parties, Free Patriotic Movement (FPM).  We call on the courts to overturn this […]