The International Press Institute (IPI) welcomes the release on bail of two of its members in Turkey, Cumhuriyet Editor-in-Chief Murat Sabuncu and investigative journalist Ahmet Şık, but emphasizes the damage that their unjust pretrial detention and other failings of the judicial process have caused to press freedom in the country. IPI Turkey Advocacy Coordinator Caroline […]

The sixth hearing of the trial against staff and journalists of Turkey’s Cumhuriyet newspaper will take place tomorrow, March 9. The hearing, in which International Press Institute (IPI) members Kadri Gürsel, Ahmet Şık and Murat Sabuncu are among the defendants, was moved to Silivri Prison outside Istanbul, where Şık and Sabuncu have been in pretrial […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today joined 16 other European and international press freedom groups in calling on the European Commission to ‘step up’ efforts to protect journalist safety following the murders of Daphne Caruana Galizia in Malta and Ján Kuciak. Kuciak, an investigative journalist with the portal Aktuality.sk, was found shot dead at home […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today condemned the detention of Tony Ezimakor, Abuja bureau chief of the Nigerian newspaper Independent. Nigeria’s Department of State Security (DSS) arrested Ezimakor on March 1, 2018. Authorities have not provided a reason for the arrest or charged Ezimakor with a crime. However, Ezimakor’s lawyers have speculated that the arrest […]