This week marked World Press Freedom Day as well as one month since the arrest in Russia of Wall Street Journal correspondent Evan Gershkovich. IPI spoke to Pjotr Sauer, Russian affairs reporter for The Guardian and a close friend of Gershkovich, on the challenges faced by foreign correspondents who have decided to continue covering Russia. […]

The IPI global network has joined with 29 other local and international media groups and press defense organizations in calling on leading regional and international institutions to ensure that press freedom and freedom of expression are respected and protected in Mali and Burkina Faso. Both countries are currently under military-led regimes, which have targeted government […]

IPI and its global network today urge authorities in Kyrgyzstan to reverse a decision banning the operations in the country of Radio Azattyk, the Kyrgyz Service of RFE/RL, a U.S. Congress-funded media corporation. A district court in Bishkek handed an initial ruling in this direction on April 27. On April 27, a district court in […]

Read this statement in Czech on our National Committee website. On World Press Freedom Day 2023, the International Press Institute (IPI) and its Czech National Committee today call on the government of Prime Minister Petr Fiala to refocus its attention on strengthening media freedom and supporting independent journalism.  In the first few months after it […]