The Media Freedom Rapid Response (MFRR), a mechanism to monitor and respond to threats against journalists and media workers in EU Member States and Candidate Countries, has responded to the unprecedented legal threats made against Polish newspaper, Gazeta Wyborcza by contributing €15,000, it’s largest grant to date, to support the outlet’s legal defence. Since 2015, Gazeta Wyborcza […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) has today joined a call for the European Union to take concrete measures to protect journalists, activists and whistleblowers from Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation – SLAPPs, which are an abuse of the legal systems to silence the exposure of information in the public interest. The paper ‘Protecting Public Watchdogs […]

About this blog: IPI member and representative İpek Yezdani attended the opening of the Jamal Khashoggi murder trial on July 3, 2020 in Istanbul. This is her account of the trial’s first day.

In April 2019, a special court in Belgrade reached a landmark verdict in the trial for the murder of Serbian journalist Slavko Ćuruvija, an investigative reporter and owner of the Dnevni Telegraf newspaper and Evropljanin magazine. Ćuruvija, who was a vocal critic of Yugoslav president Slobodan Milošević and was considered an opponent of the regime […]