On the day an International Press Institute (IPI) advocacy mission arrived in Russia to discuss the state of media freedom in the country, reports emerged that Russian freelance journalist and human rights activist Alexandr Podrabinek has gone into hiding after angering members of a nationalist pro-Kremlin youth movement with an article he wrote criticising Russia’s […]

Eight years after a sweeping post-9/11 crackdown on the media in Eritrea, none of the 12 journalists and editors imprisoned in that wave of arrests has been released, according to IPI’s ‘Justice Denied’ campaign – which highlights the cases of unjustly imprisoned journalists around the world, and murders of journalists for which no one has […]

A Turkish public prosecutor has launched a criminal investigation into a celebrity and a journalist, over comments made in an interview printed in August in the daily Millyet newspaper which the authorities claim could “incite hatred and enmity,” IPI’s Turkish National Committee reported on Wednesday. Devrim Sevimay, a journalist at Millyet, and Hulya Avsar, a […]

The director of weekly Niger news magazine Le Témoin (The Witness), Ibrahim Soumana Gaoh, was arrested on Sunday on charges of defaming the communications minister, a journalist at the magazine told IPI by phone on Wednesday. Gaoh was arrested in connection with a 14 September article entitled “Wassosso à la SONITEL” which implicated Niger’s communications […]