Authorities in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh should drop criminal complaints against news outlet The Wire and two journalists over their coverage of a recent assault case, the IPI global network said today. The Uttar Pradesh police yesterday filed cases against The Wire, as well as AltNews reporter Mohammad Zubair and journalist Rana Ayyub for […]

BRATISLAVA, Slovakia – The Slovak Supreme Court today overturned last year’s not guilty verdicts for the suspected masterminds of the 2018 murder of journalist Ján Kuciak and his girlfriend Martina Kušnírová. Controversial businessman Marian Kočner and a confidante, Alena Zsuzsová, had been acquitted last September of ordering the murder. However, the Supreme Court has now […]

November 2 marks International Day to End Impunity for Crimes Against Journalists. The occasion draws attention to the fact that the global conviction rate for violent crimes against journalists is very low – in at least nine out of ten cases the killers go unpunished. The IPI global network calls once again to end the […]

The International Press Institute (IPI), a global network of editors, media executives and leading journalists for press freedom, today condemned Algeria’s decision to cancel the operating licence of France 24 and urged the government to immediately re-grant the license. IPI also denounced the recent arbitrary detention of independent Algerian journalist Khaled Drareni and Ihsane El-Kadi, […]