The International Press Institute (IPI) today joined nine other international free expression groups and professional organisations in an open letter to Poland’s defence minister urging him to withdraw his criminal complaint against a journalist whose new book exposed the minister’s associates’ alleged network of questionable Russian contacts. The other groups include Reporters Without Borders (RSF), […]

Malcolm Dixelius is a former Moscow correspondent for the Swedish public broadcaster SVT and respected expert on Russia-related topics. Dixelius was first stationed in Moscow in 1979, where he remained for five years before taking up a role as an international reporter for SVT. He returned in 1990 and would later cover the breakup of […]

In voting last month to repeal their country’s centuries-old blasphemy law, Danish lawmakers joined a growing trend in Europe toward securing free speech on matters related to religion. A comprehensive IPI study on criminal defamation and insult laws published in March by the Representative on Freedom of the Media of the Organization for Security and […]

Polish prosecutors should reject a request by the country’s defence ministry to prosecute an investigative journalist whose recent book outlined alleged links between the defence minister’s associates, Russian intelligence services and organised crime, the International Press Institute (IPI) said today. The ministry last week asked the military department of Poland’s National Prosecutor’s Office to investigate […]