The International Press Institute (IPI) along with eight other groups – all of them members of the Press Freedom Mission to Sri Lanka – call on President Mahinda Rajapaksa to redress the perilous media environment in Sri Lanka by combating impunity, releasing imprisoned journalists, introducing legal reforms to safeguard media freedom, and ensuring journalists’ safety […]

A Russian editor-in-chief has expressed concern that the killers of a prominent human rights activist and journalist brutally slain on 15 July will never face justice. “Unfortunately the Russian authorities, although using hard wording to condemn such crimes, do almost nothing to find their organisers, bring the cases to court and punish the killers,” Galina […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) is concerned about the circumstances surrounding the death on 10 July of an independent journalist from injuries sustained during a reported beating at the hands of police. Almaz Tashiyev, who was known for his critical reporting on the Kyrgyz government fell into a coma a few days after the attack […]

The International Press Institute welcomes the enactment on 1 July of Bangladesh’s long-awaited Right to Information Act (2009), and the appointment, under Article 15(1) of the Act, of a three-member Information Commission, as an important step towards acknowledgement of the people’s right to access information.. IPI is concerned, however, that the regime of exceptions to […]