The International Press Institute (IPI) today became a partner to the Platform to promote the protection of journalism and safety of journalists, through which media freedom organisations inform the Council of Europe and disseminate information on alleged violations of media freedom. The Executive Director of IPI Barbara Trionfi signed the agreement to join the platform […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today joined the Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF) in calling for the formal release of a judicial commission’s report on the 2014 shooting of Geo Television journalist Hamid Mir after details of the report were leaked to the public. The PPF yesterday called on Pakistan Supreme Court Justice Anwar Zaheer Jamali […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today strongly condemned Zambian authorities’ decision to charge two journalists working for the privately owned newspaper The Post with defaming Zambian President Edgar Lungu. Post managing editor Joan Chriwa-Ngoma and reporter Mukosha Funga were detained yesterday for questioning and officially charged over a May 2015 article written by Funga that […]

Pressure on Turkey’s media has become so intense that even online outlets, regarded by many observers as the last remaining space for free expression, now face an existential threat. In its 2015 special report on Turkey, “Democracy at Risk”, the International Press Institute (IPI) observed that “given the amount of pressure brought to bear on […]