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Poland’s free media is shrinking (Gazeta Wyborcza)

This piece is published in collaboration with Gazeta Wyborcza as part of a content series on threats to independent media in Central Europe. Read more. The article is available in Polish on Gazeta Wyborcza’s website. In Poland, the media landscape is made up of the following: outlets controlled or heavily influenced by the government and […]

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Somalia: Journalists face arrest, police harassment to start 2021

The IPI global network calls on Somalia authorities to increase the protection of journalists following recent incidents of arrests and harassment by police. IPI strongly condemns authorities’ actions of raiding newsrooms and detaining journalists. On January 30, armed police raided Sooyaal TV and Radio, a local media station in Abudwak town, and beat and detained […]

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India cancels television license on vague ‘national security’ grounds

The Kerala High Court today extended its block on the Indian government’s recent decision to cancel the license of news channel MediaOne. The IPI global network welcomes the court’s ruling and urges the government to drop its effort to shut down MediaOne over vague “national security” concerns. On January 31, India’s Ministry of Information and […]

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‘It is enough’: Amid series of murders, Mexico’s journalists demand change

Only days after Mexican journalists protested the recent killings of three colleagues in a nation-wide demonstration, another journalist was shot on January 31. The latest murder sadly reaffirms that Mexico is indeed the deadliest country for journalists in the world, co-organizer of the protest Gabriela Martínez told IPI. “We are still mourning the death of […]

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