Zur deutschen Version Since assuming power for a second time in 2010, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has drawn international scrutiny for efforts to silence Hungary’s critical media. What is less widely known, however, is that the Hungarian government has built, using public funds, a well-oiled media machine dedicated to producing disinformation for propaganda purposes. […]

The International Press Institute (IPI), a global network of editors, media executives and leading journalists for press freedom, today condemned mass detentions and violence against journalists covering the weekend’s nationwide protests in Russia in support of jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny. IPI said the spate of arrests and violence against the press was yet another […]

The International Press Institute (IPI), the global network of editors, media executives and leading journalists, today vehemently condemned the Ethiopian government’s decision to expel The New York Times journalist Simon Marks describing it as an attempt to stifle the media. According to media reports, Simon Marks was summoned by the authorities on May 20 and […]

The International Press Institute (IPI), a global network of editors, media executives and leading journalists for press freedom, today condemned the imprisonment of Egyptian journalists Hamdi al-Zaeem and Ahmed Khalifa. Al-Zaeem, a freelance photojournalist, and Khalifa, a freelance reporter, have been detained in two separate cases since the beginning of January. According to news reports […]