India’s Supreme Court ruled this week that the government could not pursue sedition charges against journalists merely for their criticism of the authorities. The International Press Institute (IPI) welcomes the decision as an important pushback against India’s increasing legal harassment of the press. In a decision published on June 3, the Supreme Court, citing previous […]

The Media Freedom Rapid Response (MFRR) is deeply concerned by the lawsuit targeted at a journalist and the editor-in-chief of the Network for Investigation of Crime and Corruption (KRIK) by the director of Serbia’s Security-Information Agency (BIA). The MFRR urges the BIA director Bratislav Gasic to immediately withdraw the civil lawsuit against KRIK and to […]

A court in The Philippines dismissed a cyber libel case against IPI Executive Board member Maria Ressa after the plaintiff in the case withdrew. The plaintiff, businessman Wilfredo Keng, claimed he was withdrawing from the case to focus on „helping out with the pandemic“. Ressa had been accused of cyber libel when she tweeted screenshots […]

The Investigative Journalism for Europe (IJ4EU) fund today, June 1, opened two new calls for cross-border investigative journalism projects in the European Union. IJ4EU’s Investigation Support Scheme will provide grants of between €5,000 and €50,000 to cross-border teams that include at least one news outlet or investigative journalism organisation, or a staff member of one […]