The International Press Institute (IPI), a global network of editors, media executives and leading journalists for press freedom, today vehemently condemned a second prison sentence handed today to Hong Kong publisher Jimmy Lai. A court in Hong Kong today sentenced Lai, founder of Next Digital media group, which publishes the Apple Daily, to 14 months […]

On April 23, the Latvia-based Russian news site Meduza was declared a foreign agent by the Russian ministry of justice, together with the news outlet PASMI. The impact was immediate, Galina Timchenko, Meduza’s founder and CEO, said at an online briefing organized by Vienna’s fjum (forum journalismus und medien), the International Press Institute’s (IPI) and […]

Turkey should investigate new allegations regarding the unsolved murders of two prominent investigative journalists, Uğur Mumcu and Kutlu Adalı, in Turkey and Northern Cyprus in the 1990s, the International Press Institute (IPI) said today. New and serious claims about the involvement of the Turkish government and military officials in the two murders were recently raised by a […]

Scattered across central and eastern Europe, networks of ultra-conservative organisations are fighting to roll back liberal values. From the Balkans to the Baltics via Hungary and Poland, they oppose women’s rights, LGBT empowerment and sex education in schools. There is nothing ad hoc about these efforts, according to an eight-country investigation supported by the IJ4EU […]