The International Press Institute (IPI) today condemned the detention of Tony Ezimakor, Abuja bureau chief of the Nigerian newspaper Independent. Nigeria’s Department of State Security (DSS) arrested Ezimakor on March 1, 2018. Authorities have not provided a reason for the arrest or charged Ezimakor with a crime. However, Ezimakor’s lawyers have speculated that the arrest […]

On Friday, March 9, International Press Institute (IPI) observers will attend the sixth hearing of the trial against journalists with Turkey’s Cumhuriyet newspaper in Istanbul. While several defendants in the case were previously released on bail, investigative journalist Ahmet Şık and Editor-in-Chief Murat Sabuncu – both IPI members – remain in pre-trial detention on charges […]

Slovak police this week detained several suspects in relation to the gruesome murder of journalist Ján Kuciak and his fiancée. Those detained include several Italian businessmen who were named in Kuciak’s posthumously published reporting as allegedly having links to the notorious ‘Ndrangheta mafia as well as to officials close to Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico. […]

Promoting self-regulation in the Serbian media has not been an easy task for the Press Council (Savet za stampu), the Serbian self-regulatory body founded seven years ago. Modelled on Norway’s Press Complaints Commission, the Serbian Press Council and accompanying Complaints Commission consist of representatives from founding publishers and media owners; journalists and their main associations; […]