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Dutch journalist Tom Vennink expelled from Russia

The IPI global network for independent journalism today condemned Russia’s decision to expel Tom Vennink, the Moscow correspondent for Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant. IPI calls on the Interior Ministry to immediately reinstate Vennink’s work visa and to allow him to report freely. On November 1, Vennink received a letter informing him about the denial of […]

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IPI welcomes U.S. blacklisting of NSO Group over Pegasus spyware abuses

The IPI global network today welcomes the decision by the United States government to blacklist Israeli company NSO Group over the abuse of its spyware technology Pegasus to target journalists and others, and urged other democratic countries around the world to follow the Biden administration’s lead by sanctioning and regulating the technology. On November 3, […]

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Turkey: Global appeal marks 2000 days in prison for journalist Nedim Türfent

54 organizations urge once again the Turkish authorities to immediately and unconditionally release news editor, reporter and poet Nedim Türfent, and to overturn his conviction. Today marks 2000 days since he was arrested and subsequently sentenced to eight years and nine months in prison on trumped-up terrorism charges following an unfair trial, during which scores […]

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IDEI Bangladesh | Killings of Journalists: Justice a mirage as impunity prevails

Some of them were murdered a decade ago, some in the early 2000s or even earlier. There is, however, a striking similarity: justice has not been done to them as impunity prevails. They are journalists killed for performing their duties. In fact, in the last two and a half decades, cases filed over the murders […]

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