After nine years of relentless attacks by the government of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, Hungary’s few remaining independent media outlets are increasingly relying on legal challenges to keep their heads above the water. The International Press Institute (IPI) talked to two of the people and organizations mounting these creative legal fightbacks: a Hungarian civil rights […]

The members of the International Press Institute (IPI) Executive Board today published a letter expressing their “utmost support” for fellow Board member Kadri Gürsel, whose arbitrary conviction and jailing on unfounded terrorism charges was upheld last monthby a court in Turkey.

International Press Institute (IPI) Executive Board Chair Markus Spillmann today paid a solidarity visit to former journalists and executives with the secular daily Cumhuriyet whose arbitrary convictions and jail sentences were upheld by an appeals court in Turkey last month. Spillmann and IPI Turkey Advocacy Coordinator Caroline Stockford met today in Istanbul with several defendants […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today condemned the restrictions imposed on award-winning Egyptian photojournalist Mahmoud Abu Zeid, aka Shawkan, who was released from prison yesterday after spending over five years in jail on unfounded charges. Shawkan’s release is conditional on five years of “police observation”, meaning that he will need to spend 12 hours each […]