The International Press Institute (IPI) today joins media freedom organisations and NGOs in writing to the Rapporteur of the EU’s Committee on Culture and Education to raise concerns over proposed amendments which would water down the draft European Media Freedom Act (EMFA). Dear Sabine Verheyen, We, the undersigned journalists, press freedom, civil society, trade unions, […]

IPI and its global network today denounce the continued legal intimidation by Russian authorities against Christo Grozev, the lead Russia investigator at Bellingcat, a Netherlands-based international investigative journalism collective. On 21 April, legal pressure against Grozev in Russia escalated further when a district court in Moscow placed the journalist under arrest in absentia on the […]

IPI and its global network today mourn the loss of Bohdan Bitik, a Ukrainian journalist working as a fixer for La Repubblica, who was killed on Wednesday in a Russian attack near Kherson, southern Ukraine. Bitik was accompanying Italian reporter Corrado Zunino, who was wounded in the attack but survived. IPI denounces the deadly attack […]

Following a visit to Belgrade on April 10 and 11 2023 to commemorate the murder anniversary of editor and publisher Slavko Ćuruvija, the International Press Institute (IPI) today joins the undersigned international press freedom and journalists’ organisations in issuing a stark warning over the state of media freedom and journalists’ safety in Serbia. Ahead of […]