We, the undersigned international freedom of expression organisations, welcome the resolution of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) adopted on 26 June, condemning the continued impunity for the assassination of journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia and broader systemic rule of law shortcomings in Malta, and inter alia, calling for the launch of an […]

The upcoming G20 summit in Osaka, Japan includes some of the world’s worst press freedom offenders. In anticipation of the forum, IPI has gathered a guide to the conditions of press freedom in some of the member states. Even at a glance, concerning trends emerge across countries, including police raids on newsrooms and failure to […]

The International Press Institute (IPI), a global network of editors, media executives and leading journalists, condemns the opening of a criminal investigation against Bulgarian journalists Atanas Tchobanov and Assen Yordanov. Tchobanov and Yordanov, who work for the independent news website Bivol, received phone calls from police on June 10 alerting them that an investigation was […]

The International Press Institute (IPI), a global network of editors, media executive and leading journalists, has urged Japanese Prime Minister Shinzō Abe to raise the issue of press freedom and attacks on journalists during the upcoming G20 summit in Osaka, Japan. “Japan is taking over the Presidency of the G20 at a critical juncture where strong […]