The International Press Institute, a global network of editors, journalists and media executives, has called on the League of Arab States to secure the release of journalists detained in Egypt. In a letter to the secretary general of the League, Ahmed Aboul Gheit, IPI Executive Director Barbara Trionfi expressed grave concern over the decline of […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today expressed alarm over Slovak authorities’ interrogation on Tuesday of Czech investigative journalist Pavla Holcová during which police seized Holcová’s phone. Holcová, the head of the Czech Centre for Investigative Journalism, was summoned by police to Bratislava, ostensibly in order to provide information related to the February murder of Slovak […]

Der Journalist Nedim Türfent hat die letzten zwei Jahre in Einzelhaft verbracht. Seiner Freiheit beraubt, sitzt er derzeit in einem Gefängnis des „Typ T“ in Van, Osttürkei. Die Dauer seiner Freiheitsstrafe beläuft sich auf insgesamt acht Jahre und neun Monate. Er muss seine Haft weiterhin allein in seiner Zelle absitzen. Dank dem Einsatz seines Anwalts […]

After 17 months of judicial proceedings and a collective total of almost ten years of pretrial detention, the trial of journalists and staff with Turkey’s secular daily Cumhuriyet newspaper ended on April 25, 2018, with three acquittals, the separation of two cases, and 14 inordinately harsh custodial sentences ranging from two-and-a-half to 10 years. The […]