Zur deutschen Version This article is part of IPI’s series “Europe media freedom in the shadow of Covid“. Hungarian independent media, already in turnmoil due to the global coronavirus pandemic, has suffered its biggest blow in a decade of constant attacks from Viktor Orbán’s authoirtarian right-wing regime. In the last week of July the vast […]

The IJ4EU fund launched a new call for applications to its Investigation Support Scheme on August 10, with around €400,000 available to assist cross-border journalistic projects in the European Union and EU candidate countries. Under the scheme’s second call of the year, teams can apply for grants of €5,000 to €50,000 for new investigative projects, […]

The three-year prison sentence given today to Algerian journalist Khaled Drareni is a mockery of press freedom, the International Press Institute (IPI), a global network of editors, media executives and leading journalists for press freedom, said today. A court in Algeria found Khaled Drareni, editor of the news website Casbah Tribune and the Algeria correspondent […]

The International Press Institute (IPI), a global network of editors, media executives and leading journalists for press freedom, today vehemently condemned the arrest of Hong Kong media executive Jimmy Lai and six others by Hong Kong police under China’s new national security law for the territory. Jimmy Lai, his two sons and four executives of […]