The Slovene Association of Journalists (DNS) today launched a campaign, supported by the International Press Institute (IPI) and its affiliate the South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), to reform Slovenia’s defamation laws as well as criminal provisions related to the publication of classified information. The campaign was announced during a joint press conference with DNS […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today called upon Ukrainian authorities to immediately investigate the murders of journalists Oles Buzina and Sergey Sukhobok. According to news reports, Buzina was killed by two masked men at 1:20 p.m. on April 16, while jogging near his home in Kiev. Aged 45, he was an author and TV presenter […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today condemned an air strike by Saudi-led coalition forces on the offices of the Sana’a-based television station Yemen Today that left a journalist and three others dead, and which reports said specifically targeted the station. The air strike came amid the Saudi-led coalition’s four-week campaign against Houthi rebels who have […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today condemned a Chinese court decision sentencing veteran investigative journalist and IPI World Press Freedom Hero Gao Yu to seven years in prison for allegedly leaking state secrets. “This disturbing decision – which punishes a journalist for allegedly sharing materials highlighting the ideology behind Beijing’s policies, information undoubtedly of public […]