The Executive Board of the International Press Institute (IPI), including Nobel Peace Prize winning journalist Maria Ressa, has today written a letter to Evan Gershkovich, the Wall Street Journal reporter currently behind bars in a Moscow prison on bogus espionage charges. Read the full letter below. Dear Evan, We hope the Lefortovo prison and its […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today joined media freedom partners in writing to the President of Georgia, Salomé Zourabichvili, urging her to officially pardon leading TV station owner and publisher Nika Gvaramia, who has been in jail since May 2022 after being sentenced on politically motivated charges. Salome Zourabichvili President of Georgia Administration of the […]

In the final stretch of a bitter election campaign, presidential candidate Petr Pavel was forced to assure voters that he was still alive. Reports of the former general’s death may not have prevented him romping to victory in the Czech Republic’s January presidential election, but they were just one example of the “alarming” levels of […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) joins its partners in the Media Freedom Rapid Response (MFRR) in today expressing dismay over the recent court ruling involving a SLAPP lawsuit against independent Greek media outlet Alterthess and one of its journalists, Stavroula Poulimeni. Using the MFRR Legal Support fund, our consortium will help provide funding to cover […]