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Gaza: IPI renews call to protect journalists, allow access by international reporters

The IPI global network is appalled and outraged over the killing of at least five journalists by Israeli air strikes in the span of 24 hours. Amid these killings and new journalistic investigations into previous Israeli military strikes, we urgently renew our call on Israel and the international community to take immediate measures to protect […]

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France: Media freedom groups condemns Vivendi’s disinformation campaign against Reporters Without Borders

The Media Freedom Rapid Response (MFRR) partners strongly condemn the cyber disinformation campaign against the press freedom organisation Reporters Without Borders (RSF). The attacks have been orchestrated by the Paris-based communications agency “Progressif Media”, whose minor stakeholder is the Vivendi Group, a French mass-media holding company controlled by media tycoon Vincent Bolloré. The MFRR stands […]

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IPI joins 20 rights groups calling on EU to address critical flaws in draft treaty on cybercrime 

IPI today joined 20 digital rights and press freedom groups to urge the European Union to address critical flaws in the latest draft of the UN cybercrime convention, ahead of the final negotiations of the treaty that begin at the end of this month in New York.  IPI has consistently called for sweeping revisions to […]

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Pakistan: IPI condemns killing of journalist Malik Hassan Zeb

The IPI global network remains deeply alarmed by the escalating violence against journalists in Pakistan, following the killing of reporter Malik Hassan Zeb on July 14 — the 8th journalist to be killed in the country since the start of 2024. We urge authorities to conduct a swift and thorough investigation into the motive for […]

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