The IPI global network strongly condemns the killing of Afghan journalist Hosein Naderi in a targeted attack on journalism by the Islamic State group. On March 11, a bomb exploded in Mazar-e-Sharif, the capital of Afghanistan’s Balkh province, during a press event marking National Journalists Day. The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for the attack […]

Following the start of the retrial last week at the Court of Appeal for the 1999 murder of Serbian editor and publisher Slavko Ćuruvija, the International Press Institute (IPI) today joins the undersigned partners of the Media Freedom Rapid Response (MFRR) and the SafeJournalists Network (SJN) in today renewing our call for justice for his […]

Days after its full-scale invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, Russia adopted repressive legislation at full speed, aiming to criminalize any independent reporting or social media mentions of the war. Just over a year later, Russian lawmakers tightened these laws even further. On March 15, the State Duma, the lower house of parliament, adopted […]

The 2018 assassination of Ján Kuciak and his fiancée Martina Kušnírová in Slovakia occurred just months after that of Maltese journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, in October 2017, raising urgent questions about the state of press freedom in both countries. However, the outcomes could not be more different. While Kuciak’s death brought investigative journalism to the […]