The new Polish government’s abrupt dismissal of the supervisory bodies of the country’s public television broadcaster TVP and national news agency PAP risks setting an alarming precedent that must be urgently rectified by new rules to permanently protect these institutions’ independence, the International Press Institute (IPI) said today. The previous Law and Justice (PiS) government […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today condemns the multi-million-euro legal action taken against media and journalists by the nephew of the country’s prime minister over their revelations about his connections to the ‘Predatorgate’ spyware scandal and renews its calls for measures to combat vexatious lawsuits against the press in Greece. On 24 November, Grigoris Dimitriadis, […]

The IPI global network stands with the Foreign Press Association of Israel in demanding that the Israeli government grant international media immediate access to report from inside the Gaza Strip. The FPA said that foreign journalists have been denied the right to access and report independently from inside Gaza without the presence of IDF troops […]

The IPI global network condemns the killing in Mozambique of prominent journalist João Chamusse, the editor-in-chief of the weekly online newspaper Ponto por Ponto. We call on the authorities to conduct a thorough and transparent investigation to determine the motive and hold the killers to account. On December 14, 2023, the body of Chamusse was […]