The Vienna-based South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), an affiliate of the International Press Institute (IPI), is dismayed at recent changes in the Kosovo Penal Code, approved on April 20 in the Kosovo parliament. According to the controversial articles 37 and 38, journalists will be held criminally liable if they do not reveal their sources. […]

Twenty international journalists who have been recognised as World Press Freedom Heroes by the Vienna-based International Press Institute (IPI) have condemned the Ethiopian government’s decision to jail Eskinder Nega and other journalists on terrorism charges, and called for their immediate release. Eskinder Nega, an online writer and critic of the current Ethiopian government, was arrested […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today welcomed news that the State of Colorado will decriminalise libel. Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper on April 13 signed a bill to repeal the state’s criminal libel law, effective Sep. 1. IPI Acting Deputy Director Anthony Mills said: “We are very pleased to hear that Colorado has taken the positive […]

A series of journalists, and a media activist, were killed this week, and another was viciously attacked on Friday, starkly highlighting the grave global threats to the safety of journalists. The International Press Institute (IPI) was saddened to learn of the death of several citizen reporters in Syria, in the past few days, despite a […]