The International Press Institute (IPI) today joined free expression and press freedom watchdogs across the globe in commemorating World Press Freedom Day. In a video interview from IPI’s Vienna headquarters, IPI Director of Advocacy and Communications Steven M. Ellis noted that press freedom is necessary to creating just and fair societies, and he saluted the […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) will mark this year’s World Press Freedom Day by joining leading press freedom defenders in presenting a panel discussion on journalists’ safety as part of worldwide celebrations organised by the U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in Finland. The discussion, organised thanks to the support of the Helsingin Sanomat Foundation, […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today marked the birthday of award-winning Syrian human rights defender Razan Zaitouneh, who remains missing since her abduction along with three colleagues in December 2013, by joining some 30 other human rights watchdogs in a message of solidarity and a call for their freedom. Armed men kidnapped Zaitouneh and the others […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today joined observers around the world in condemning the two-year prison sentence handed to two journalists who republished the cover of satirical French magazine Charlie Hebdo featuring an image of the Prophet Muhammad. An Istanbul court convicted daily Cumhuriyet journalists Ceyda Karan and Hikmet Çetinkaya of “openly encouraging hate and […]