The International Press Institute (IPI) today called for the immediate release of prominent Nepali publisher, editor and columnist Kanak Mani Dixit, who was arrested by authorities on corruption charges Friday. Dixit, founder of the Kathmandu-based news magazine Himal Southasian, was taken from his home in Patan, Lalitpur district by some 20 police officers deployed by […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today joined in calls for Kyrgyzstan to free political activist and journalist Azimjan Askarov after the U.N. Human Rights Committee found that authorities had violated several of his human rights during his trial and the nearly six years he has spent behind bars. Authorities accuse Askarov of having caused ethnic […]

On March 16, journalists of the Crime and Corruption Reporting Network (KRIK) in Serbia received numerous phone calls warning them that the editor of a pro-government tabloid had appeared on popular nationwide TV station TV Pink, where he promised to reveal the following day “what [KRIK editor-in-chief] Stevan Dojcinovic and KRIK are all about”. The […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today welcomed Myanmar President Htin Kyaw’s pardon of some 83 political prisoners, including four journalists and a media CEO imprisoned since 2014 over news reports on an alleged secret military chemical weapons factory. The pardon, signed by the president on Saturday, came just weeks after the new government of Aung […]