The IPI global network calls on Guatemalan authorities to release and drop charges against journalist and IPI World Press Freedom Hero José Rubén Zamora, president and founder of the newspaper elPeriódico. Zamora was arrested at his home in Guatemala City on Friday on charges including alleged money laundering, blackmail, and influence peddling. The newspaper and […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today joins other European media freedom and journalists’ rights organisations in expressing renewed concern about the lack of implementation of the recommendations of the milestone Public Inquiry into the assassination of Malta’s leading investigative journalist, Daphne Caruana Galizia. On the first anniversary of the Public Inquiry report’s publication, we urge […]

This piece is published in collaboration with HVG as part of a content series on threats to independent media in Central Europe. Read more. How is it possible that Hungary has improved in the Reporters Without Borders’ world press freedom rankings, yet the media is worse off? The solution is simple: in recent years, the Orbán regime has […]

Russia’s now-notorious foreign agent law – a key tool for repressing independent media – first emerged ten years ago, in July 2012. Its development provides a unique lens for tracking the expansion of authoritarian control within the country. Long abused by the government, the law was instrumental in causing self-censorship and a mass exodus of […]