As the Turkish Constitutional Court reviews the constitutionality of the “disinformation offence”, today on 8 November, the International Press Institute (IPI) and Media Freedom Rapid Response (MFRR) partner organisations reiterate their call for the annulment of Article 217/A of the Turkish Penal Code and related legal amendments passed in October 2022 that undermine international standards on the […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today joined groups in writing to EU institutions urging for strong provisions in the EU Commission’s draft European Media Freedom Act (EMFA) which effectively protect the independence of public service media across the bloc.   Honorable members of the inter-institutional negotiating teams on the European Media Freedom Act (EMFA), We, […]

The IPI global network strongly condemns the sentencing of Iranian journalists Niloofar Hamedi and Elaheh Mohammadi, two of the first journalists to report on the death of Masha Amini at the hands of the morality police in September 2022, and calls for their immediate release.  On October 22, Hamedi was sentenced to a total of […]

In its quest to combat climate change, the European Union has spent three decades trying to incentivise major polluters to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions through a scheme that would reward their cutbacks through the world’s first major carbon market. Yet an investigation supported by IPI’s Investigative Journalism for Europe (IJ4EU) fund reveals a disheartening […]