One of Bulgaria’s leading investigative news websites, Bivol.bg, has been hit with an avalanche of repressive government probes, audits and investigations in recent months, in what its owner says is targeted retaliation for its reporting on corruption in the country’s ruling party. In March 2019, the site revealed a major real estate scandal implicating top […]

The International Press Institute IPI, a global network of editors, media executives and journalists for press freedom, has urged Saudi Arabia to replace an ongoing trial into the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi with transparent proceedings defined by international input, support and oversight. In a letter to King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud making the […]

Last month, Cambodia’s Information Ministry took to the Internet to step-up its public warnings to news organizations in the Kingdom over the dissemination of so-called “fake news”. Pledging stricter enforcement of the country’s media regulations, director-general of the General Department of Information and Broadcasting Phos Sovann said that his office would renew its efforts to […]

The International Press Institute (IPI), a global network of editors, media executives and leading journalists for press freedom, today called on the authorities in Egypt to release journalist Hassan El-Kabany, who has been missing for over a week after attending a meeting at the headquarters of the country’s security services. El-Kabany, a freelance journalist and […]