IPI and other members of the Council of Europe’s Platform to Promote the Protection of Journalism and Safety of Journalists today published a joint statement calling for the protection of journalists covering Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and for the provision of urgent and practical assistance to reporters on the ground. Read the full statement below. […]

The IPI global network today urged authorities in Poland to immediately secure the release of Spanish freelance journalist Pablo González and to provide more details on the reason for his arrest. González, a Basque journalist specializing in post-Soviet countries who has been covering the war in Ukraine and the resulting humanitarian crisis from close to […]

Kashmiri journalist Fahad Shah was arrested for a second time on February 26 after being granted bail earlier that same day for his February 4 arrest. According to the police in Pulwama, where Shah first was arrested, this new case is registered in Shopian, where Shah was transferred to. As IPI previously reported, Shah was […]

Two Belarusian Belsat TV journalists have now spent over a year in a penal colony after being arrested for reporting on a demonstration. Katsyaryna Andreyeva and Darya Chultsova were arrested in November 2020 and sentenced to a penal colony for two years in February 2021. Both Belsat TV journalists are supposed to be freed next […]