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Somalia: Journalists face arrest, police harassment to start 2021

The IPI global network calls on Somalia authorities to increase the protection of journalists following recent incidents of arrests and harassment by police. IPI strongly condemns authorities’ actions of raiding newsrooms and detaining journalists. On January 30, armed police raided Sooyaal TV and Radio, a local media station in Abudwak town, and beat and detained […]

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India cancels television license on vague ‘national security’ grounds

The Kerala High Court today extended its block on the Indian government’s recent decision to cancel the license of news channel MediaOne. The IPI global network welcomes the court’s ruling and urges the government to drop its effort to shut down MediaOne over vague “national security” concerns. On January 31, India’s Ministry of Information and […]

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‘It is enough’: Amid series of murders, Mexico’s journalists demand change

Only days after Mexican journalists protested the recent killings of three colleagues in a nation-wide demonstration, another journalist was shot on January 31. The latest murder sadly reaffirms that Mexico is indeed the deadliest country for journalists in the world, co-organizer of the protest Gabriela Martínez told IPI. “We are still mourning the death of […]

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IJ4EU gives €1.11 million in grants in 2021/22

IPI’s Investigative Journalism for Europe (IJ4EU) programme has awarded more than €1.1 million in grants during the current funding year, allowing reporters across the European Union and beyond to launch collaborative investigations in the public interest. For IJ4EU’s 2021/22 grant cycle, independent juries have allocated an average of €25,800 to 43 cross-border teams under two […]

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