Zur deutschen Version It took less than 24 hours after Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s landslide victory in this month’s parliamentary elections for a fresh earthquake to hit Hungary’s already battered media landscape. On Sunday, April 8, Orbán’s Fidesz party won a comfortable two-thirds majority to lead the country for a third four-year term. By […]

A delegation from the International Press Institute (IPI), led by IPI Turkey Advocacy Coordinator Caroline Stockford, is in Turkey this week, April 24 to 27, to monitor the final hearing in the criminal trial of journalists and staff with Turkey’s Cumhuriyet newspaper. We’ll be updating this page daily with key points from the proceedings. See additional background and […]

A delegation from the International Press Institute (IPI), a global network of editors, publishers and leading journalists, will monitor the seventh and final hearing in the criminal trial against more than a dozen journalists and staff members of the independent Turkish daily newspaper Cumhuriyet on spurious terrorism-related charges. IPI Turkey Advocacy Coordinator Caroline Stockford, who […]

Angola must uphold journalist Rafael Marques’s right to a fair trial, the International Press Institute (IPI) said today after a court placed restrictions on Marques’s ability to defend himself against spurious criminal insult charges. Marques, who runs the anti-corruption news website Maka Angola, is accused together with fellow journalist Mariano Brás Lourenço of “outrage to […]