The International Press Institute (IPI) today reiterated its call on Myanmar to free two Reuters journalists who have been now held for more than 100 days on spurious accusations of violating the country’s official secrets law. Wa Lone, 31, and Kyaw Soe Oo, 28, were arrested in Yangon on December 13, 2017, by local security […]

Read in English Der exekutionsartige Mord an dem slowakischen Journalisten Ján Kuciak und seiner Verlobten Martina Kušnírová schockierte die Slowakei, rüttelte die Politik des Landes auf und bewirkte den Rücktritt von Premierminister Robert Fico. Die von Kuciak hervorgebrachten Indizien, darunter posthum veröffentlichte Recherchen zu Verbindungen zwischen Vertrauensmännern Ficos und der italienischen Mafia, scheinen die vorherrschende […]

Zur deutschen Version The execution-style murders of journalist Ján Kuciak and his fiancée, Martina Kušnírová, shocked Slovakia, shook up the country’s politics and spurred the resignation of Prime Minister Robert Fico. While Kuciak’s work, including a posthumously published investigation into ties between Fico confidants and the Italian mafia, tapped into widespread animus over corruption, it […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today strongly condemned the re-arrest of recently freed Ethiopian journalist Eskinder Nega and other journalists, bloggers and politicians and called for their immediate release. Ethiopian authorities on Sunday made the arrests at a gathering outside the capital city of Addis Abeba. Nega, who received the IPI-IMS World Press Freedom Hero […]