In July 2024, physical assaults, arrests of journalists covering anti-government protests, and incidents of censorship topped the list of threats to press freedom in Sub-Saharan African countries. IPI monitoring documented 33 violations or threats to media freedom in 17 countries. The highest number of violations were recorded in Kenya, DRC, and Somalia. State actors were […]

IPI joins the partner organizations of the MFRR in calling on the authorities in Georgia not to extradite journalist Afgan Sadygov to Azerbaijan and to release him from extradition detention. Additionally, authorities should allow Sadygov to freely leave Georgia for a third country. Georgian authorities arrested Sadygov on 3 August according to the journalist’s wife, […]

A surge in organized crime and drug related violence has created a spiraling journalist-safety crisis in Ecuador. Last month, the International Press Institute (IPI) organized an online briefing with four leading Ecuadorian journalists and editors. Their conclusion: Ecuador’s journalists face threats on multiple fronts and face constant, physical, psychological, digital, and financial risk. Starting the […]

As final negotiations draw to a close this week in New York, the IPI global network urgently calls on the United States and the European Union to stand firm and reject a global treaty that will give authorities sweeping surveillance powers and hand authoritarians even more tools to target and punish journalists and other public […]