The International Press Institute (IPI) today warned of a further deterioration of the media freedom situation in Turkey as it launches its report ‘Turkey: Spectre of a Digital Lockdown’. The report, published on the eve of World Press Freedom Day 2022, examines government efforts to increase digital censorship through further control of online information in […]

Deutsche Version The International Press Institute (IPI) has documented 356 attacks on journalists, acts of censorship and serious violations of media freedom since the beginning of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, according to the latest figures. Published ahead of World Press Freedom Day on May 3, the data from IPI’s Ukraine War Press Freedom Tracker underscores […]

On World Press Freedom Day 2022, IPI offers 10 recommendations for what democratic governments must do to better protect press freedom at home and around the world. In recent years, press freedom has come under siege globally as authoritarianism gains strength. Openly autocratic regimes from Belarus to Myanmar have brazenly widened their crackdowns on critical […]

Read in English In Zeiten zunehmendem Autoritarismus und Illiberalismus müssen demokratische Regierungen mit gutem Beispiel vorangehen. Zum Welttag der Pressefreiheit 2022 veröffentlicht das IPI 10 Empfehlungen, was demokratische Regierungen tun müssen, um die Pressefreiheit im eigenen Land und auf der ganzen Welt besser zu schützen. In den letzten Jahren ist die Pressefreiheit weltweit unter Druck […]