The IPI global network firmly condemns the decision of Russia’s Sverdlovsk Oblast court to sentence WSJ correspondent Evan Gershkovich to 16 years in a high-security prison on charges of espionage. Russian authorities never produced evidence to support the baseless accusations against Gershkovich – and the circumstances of his arrest and rapid trial and sentencing point […]

The IPI global network is appalled and outraged over the killing of at least five journalists by Israeli air strikes in the span of 24 hours. Amid these killings and new journalistic investigations into previous Israeli military strikes, we urgently renew our call on Israel and the international community to take immediate measures to protect […]

The Media Freedom Rapid Response (MFRR) partners strongly condemn the cyber disinformation campaign against the press freedom organisation Reporters Without Borders (RSF). The attacks have been orchestrated by the Paris-based communications agency “Progressif Media”, whose minor stakeholder is the Vivendi Group, a French mass-media holding company controlled by media tycoon Vincent Bolloré. The MFRR stands […]

IPI today joined 20 digital rights and press freedom groups to urge the European Union to address critical flaws in the latest draft of the UN cybercrime convention, ahead of the final negotiations of the treaty that begin at the end of this month in New York.  IPI has consistently called for sweeping revisions to […]