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IDEI Pakistan | Crimes against journalists

That Pakistani journalists are threatened, intimidated and killed with no consequences for the perpetrators is a shameful indictment of our democracy. Ahead of the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists, the Committee to Protect Journalists published a report that ranks Pakistan as ninth out of 12 countries where journalists have been killed […]

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Sudan’s military must free arrested journalists, end internet block

The Sudanese military authorities must immediately stop arresting journalists and must end the internet shutdown imposed in the wake of Monday’s military coup, the IPI global network of journalists, editors and executives said today. On Monday, October 25, military head Abdel-Fattah al-Burhan seized power and arrested Sudan’s prime minister, Abdalla Homdok, as well as other […]

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Finland charges three journalists with disclosing ‘state secrets’

The International Press Institute (IPI), the global network of editors, publishers, and leading journalists for press freedom, today expressed grave alarm over the decision by Finland’s deputy prosecutor general to charge three Helsingin Sanomat journalists with disclosing state secrets. Helsingin Sanomat, Finland’s leading daily newspaper, started to publish a series of articles beginning on December […]

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IJ4EU awards €430,000 to 14 cross-border investigations

Fourteen teams of investigative journalists from across the European Union have secured grants under the second round of IPI’s IJ4EU Investigation Support Scheme for cross-border journalism. An independent jury awarded a combined €430,000 for investigations on topics ranging from international money laundering and the Belarus–EU border crisis to war crimes prosecutions and corruption in sport. […]

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