In the latest example of pressure on independent media in Poland, U.S.-owned broadcaster TVN24 could lose its broadcasting licence following legislative proposals by lawmakers from the ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party to ban non-European ownership of Polish media. Like its parent company TVN, TVN24 has been 100% owned by U.S.-based Discovery, Inc. since 2015 […]

The Media Freedom Rapid Response (MFRR) is highly alarmed by the revelations by a consortium led by French NGO Forbidden Stories about the surveillance of journalists, human rights defenders, lawyers and others through the Pegasus spyware program developed by Israeli company NSO Group. The leak, which revealed the involvement of the Hungarian government among others, […]

The Personal Data Protection Authority (abbrev. in Turkish: KVKK) published its reasoning on July 7 on a complaint brought by the Presidential Communications Director Fahrettin Altun against independent newspaper Cumhuriyet following articles which reported on an illegal construction on a property he rented. IPI welcomed the decision and said it represented a milestone for the protection of […]

The IPI global press freedom network is appalled by the potential hacking of the phones of 180 journalists in at least 10 countries from 2016 to 2021 using the spyware Pegasus, a cyber-surveillance tool sold to governments to allegedly monitor terrorist activities. The information, disclosed on Sunday by Forbidden Stories and a consortium of 16 […]