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Indictment accepted in “crucial first step” of Ján Kuciak’s murder trial

A court in Bratislava today accepted the landmark indictment of four suspects accused of ordering and carrying out the murder of Slovakian investigative journalist Ján Kuciak and his financée Martina Kušnírová in 2018. The decision at the Special Criminal Court paves the way for the main trial to begin on January 13, 2020, in a […]

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Guilty verdicts for masterminds of deadliest attack on journalists in history

The International Press Institute (IPI), a global network of editors, media executives and leading journalists for press freedom, today welcomed the historic guilty verdicts handed down to the masterminds of the single deadliest attack on journalists in modern times. Today the prime suspects from the powerful Ampatuan family clan accused of carrying out the 2009 […]

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Disappearances and detentions continue in another dark year for Egyptian journalists

The International Press Institute (IPI), a global network of editors, media executives and leading journalists for press freedom, today condemned the continued disappearances and arbitrary detention of journalists in Egypt and called on authorities to immediately release all those swept up in a recent crackdown. The last three months have seen the biggest wave of […]

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Nigeria must amend vague ‘hate speech’ bill

The International Press Institute (IPI), a global network of editors, media executives and leading journalists for press freedom, joined its Nigerian National Committee in expressing concern over two cybercrime bills being considered in Nigeria targeting vague concepts of “hate speech”, “fake news” and misinformation. The first bill, the National Commission for the Prohibition of Hate […]

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