The International Press Institute (IPI), a global network of editors, media executives and journalists for press freedom, welcomes the release of Reuters journalists Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo from the prison and urges Myanmar to ensure that their convictions are fully expunged. Wa Lone, 33, and Kyaw Soe Oo, 29, spent over 500 days […]

The International Press Institute (IPI), a global network of editors, media executives and journalists for press freedom, today condemned the destruction of the offices of Turkey’s Anadolu news agency in Gaza in an Israeli air strike on May 4. The building housing Anadolu’s offices was hit by five rockets fired by Israeli warplanes as violence […]

A combination of diplomatic engagement and judicial measures can be an effective strategy to promote press freedom, safety of journalists and raise the cost of impunity for crimes against journalists, International Press Institute (IPI) Executive Director Barbara Trionfi said at a meeting today between the OSCE Group of Friends on Safety of Journalist and IPI […]

On the eve of World Press Freedom Day 2019, Turkey’s Constitutional Court took the staggering decision to rule, after over two years, that the arbitrary arrest and detention of four former journalists with the secular newspaper Cumhuriyet did not violate their rights to liberty and free expression. After a session on May 2, the Court […]