The International Press Institute (IPI), a global network of editors, media executives and journalists for press freedom, today urged the Hong Kong administration to drop all charges against four Apple Daily editors. According to media reports,  four editors of now shuttered Apple Daily have been charged under the  National Security Law for conspiring with now […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) condemned the Turkish police violence against journalists covering the protests yesterday, July 20, in Istanbul and İzmir, and called for an immediate end to the use of excessive force. According to local reports, at least 20 reporters and photojournalists were beaten by the police and injured by rubber bullets. Local media reports […]

Iranian photographer Sasan Moayyedi won the Global Peace Photo Award 2020 for his series Love Story. Moayyedi’s winning series is a pictorial narrative of Salah Saeedpour, a landmine victim, and his wife Serveh Amini. Despite losing both hands and eyes during a family picnic to an unexploded, concealed landmine left from the Iran-Iraq war, Saeedpour […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) condemns Iran for conspiring to kidnap Iranian American journalist and human rights activist Masih Alinejad and urges the international community to hold Iran accountable for the plot. In a federal indictment unsealed last week, U.S. prosecutors charged four Iranian intelligence agents—who are still at large—with plotting to kidnap Alinejad from […]