The International Press Institute (IPI) today joins its partner organisations in the Media Freedom Rapid Response (MFRR) in publishing a mission report focusing on key challenges facing press freedom in Italy. The report followed a three-day fact-finding mission to Rome and Naples by the MFRR organisations between 4-6 April 2022, which was led by the […]

Deadly violence towards the press in Mexico continues unabated as two more journalists, Yesenia Mollinedo Falconi and Sheila Johana García Olivera, were found slain in the Mexican state of Veracruz on May 9. This brings the number of journalists in Mexico who have been killed so far this year to 11 — making the country […]

The IPI global network of journalists, editors, and publishers strongly condemns the sentencing of Afghan journalist Khalid Qaderi to one year in prison on charges of spreading anti-regime propaganda and committing “espionage” for foreign media outlets. We call on the Taliban to immediately release Qaderi, drop all charges against him, and cease its campaign of […]

Press freedom in the Czech Republic has undergone a welcome boost since the government of Prime Minister Petr Fiala came to power. The undersigned media freedom and journalists organisations today urge the new administration to use this momentum to push forward with amendments which will strengthen the institutional independence of Česká televize (Czech Television) and […]