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IPI calls for immediate repeal of rights-limiting Honduras emergency decree

The International Press Institute (IPI) on Wednesday called on the de facto Honduran government to repeal an emergency decree suspending media freedom and some civil liberties. A day after the decree limiting constitutional rights was issued on Sunday, troops closed down Radio Globo and a television station that backed Honduran President Manuel Zelaya, who was […]

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As IPI press freedom advocacy mission arrives in Russia, journalist goes into hiding after receiving threats

On the day an International Press Institute (IPI) advocacy mission arrived in Russia to discuss the state of media freedom in the country, reports emerged that Russian freelance journalist and human rights activist Alexandr Podrabinek has gone into hiding after angering members of a nationalist pro-Kremlin youth movement with an article he wrote criticising Russia’s […]

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On eight-year anniversary of post-9/11 Eritrea media crackdown, IPI calls on government to release unjustly imprisoned journalists

Eight years after a sweeping post-9/11 crackdown on the media in Eritrea, none of the 12 journalists and editors imprisoned in that wave of arrests has been released, according to IPI’s ‘Justice Denied’ campaign – which highlights the cases of unjustly imprisoned journalists around the world, and murders of journalists for which no one has […]

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IPI/SEEMO Joint Statement: Turkey investigating journalist and celebrity over newspaper interview criticising government’s ‘Kurdish initiative’

A Turkish public prosecutor has launched a criminal investigation into a celebrity and a journalist, over comments made in an interview printed in August in the daily Millyet newspaper which the authorities claim could “incite hatred and enmity,” IPI’s Turkish National Committee reported on Wednesday. Devrim Sevimay, a journalist at Millyet, and Hulya Avsar, a […]

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