The International Press Institute (IPI) today renews our serious concerns about the safety of journalists in Serbia, where independent media houses and their reporters face an intensifying and toxic climate of smear campaigns and political pressure directed by the government and public officials. On 30 May, the private premises of the broadcaster N1 in the […]

Read in English Mit den diesjährigen Preisverleihungen des IPI-Weltkongresses wurden Resilienz und Mut im Journalismus gewürdigt. Die prominente mexikanische Enthüllungsreporterin Carmen Aristegui wurde mit dem IPI-IMS World Press Freedom Hero Award 2023 ausgezeichnet. Damit würdigten IPI und IMS ihre jahrzehntelange unerschrockene Berichterstattung über Korruption in Mexiko, trotz gezielter Bemühungen, sie zum Schweigen zu bringen. Die Nachrichtenseite Myanmar Now erhielt den […]

Press freedom in India continues to deteriorate under the Modi government, as journalists face physical attacks, legal harassment, and censorship. IPI documented at least 124 press freedom violations in the six-month period between October 2022 and March 2023, a vast majority of which were at the hands of public authorities, including law enforcement and the […]

Journalists in Bangladesh continue to operate in a hostile and dangerous environment, often facing physical attacks and threats, as well as judicial and legal harassment, according to IPI monitoring data from October 2022 – March 2023.  IPI documented at least 42 press freedom threats or violations during this six-month period, half of which were reported […]