The Supreme Court’s council decided on April 10, 2024, overturning the previous verdicts of the lower courts, which had determined that the Croatian Radiotelevision’s (HRT) 2018 decision to summarily terminate the employment contract of Hrvoje Zovko, the president of the Croatian Journalists’ Association (CJA) and then executive editor of HTV4, was unlawful and the termination […]

The IPI global network calls on Tunisia to cease its use of the country’s draconian cybercrime laws to target and punish journalists. At least six journalists were arrested on cybercrimes charges this May, in the latest crackdown on the media and civil society. The recent spate of arrests comes amid the alarming erosion of press […]

The members of the International Press Institute (IPI), meeting at their 73nd annual General Assembly during the IPI World Congress on May 23, 2024 in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina adopted by unanimous vote a resolution calling on states to ensure robust, independent news reporting and access to information on the environment and the climate crisis […]

The IPI global network today once again calls for an end to the use of spyware against journalists in Europe, following new revelations by NGO Access Now, which found that seven more Russian and Belarusian journalists and activists in exile in Europe had been targeted by Pegasus spyware. In its statement, Access Now drew up […]