The IPI global network mourns the death of journalist Hasibur Rahman Rubel, who went missing in Kushtia in western Bangladesh on July 3 and was found dead several days later.  IPI calls on authorities to carry out a swift and thorough investigation to determine the circumstances of his death and whether he was killed in […]

IPI continues to monitor and document the alarming deterioration of press freedom in the region, which has significantly worsened since the Indian government revoked the state’s special status three years ago. This decline has occurred amid broader attacks on press freedom in India under the government of conservative nationalist Prime Minister Narendra Modi, whose Bharatiya […]

This piece is published in collaboration with Libertatea as part of a content series on threats to independent media in Central Europe. Read more. On December 2, 2020, Bucharest’s District 4 mayor Daniel Băluță, a former dentist who was elected to office in 2016, sued two investigative journalists from the Romanian daily newspaper Libertatea, as well as the […]

The partner organisations of the Media Freedom Rapid Response (MFRR) today join the Journalists’ Union of Athens Daily Newspapers (JUADN) in condemning the arson attack on the offices of newspaper Real News and the radio station Real FM in Athens on 13 July 2022. Our organisations call on the Greek law enforcement authorities to conduct […]