September 5 marked four years since the murder of prominent Indian journalist Gauri Lankesh, the founding editor of the Kannada-language weekly tabloid Gauri Lankesh Patrike. She was shot dead outside of her house in Bangalore, an act thought to have been carried out by far-right Hindu nationalists. The same group is allegedly linked to the […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) and its partners in the Media Freedom Rapid Response (MFRR) today strongly condemn the attack on the Slovenian public broadcaster RTV Slovenija (RTVS) by Covid-19 deniers and anti-vaccination protesters last Friday.  At around 8:30pm on 3 September 2021, protesters broke into the RTVS studio in Ljubljana. The group of about […]

Yuliya Slutskaya, the founder and chairperson of Press Club Belarus and an unswerving beacon of quality, independent journalism in the repressive former Soviet republic, is the International Press Institute (IPI)‘s 72nd World Press Freedom Hero. The World Press Freedom Hero award honours journalists who have made significant contributions to the promotion of press freedom, particularly […]

The level of violence and oppression that journalists in Turkey face is escalating by the day – and women journalists are on the front line. After the publication of a police directive in May to prevent audiovisual reporting on protests, the number of incidents in which women journalists were physically assaulted by the police or prevented from […]