The government of the northwestern Indian state of Rajasthan must reverse a “draconian” ordinance that bars the media from covering allegations of wrongdoing involving public officials in the absence of a government-sanctioned criminal investigation, the International Press Institute (IPI) said today in letters sent to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje. Passed on Sept. […]

Read in English Das Leben des Investigativjournalisten Tomasz Piątek, Mitarbeiter der Zeitung „Gazeta Wyborcza“, änderte sich schlagartig, nachdem er im Juni ein Buch über den polnischen Verteidigungsminister und seine vermeintlichen Verbindungen zu dubiosen russischen Kreisen veröffentlicht hatte. In einem Interview mit dem International Press Institute (Internationales Presseinstitut, IPI) in Warschau diesen Monat sprach er über […]

Zur deutschen Version For investigative journalist Tomasz Piątek, life changed dramatically after he published a book in June on the Polish defence minister’s associates’ alleged network of questionable Russian contacts. In an interview in Warsaw this month with the International Press Institute (IPI), he spoke about the minister’s “absurd” criminal complaint against him – and […]

Six journalists and media employees in Turkey face trial today in Istanbul on accusations of spreading terrorist propaganda and revealing state secrets stemming from leftist hackers’ release of emails last year from a private account of the country’s energy minister, the son-in-law of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Three of the six – Tunca Öğreten, former […]