Turkey’s use this week of emergency powers granted in the wake of the July 15 coup attempt to shutter more than 20 media outlets with no discernible relationship to the failed putsch, and calls to extend the state of emergency, again illustrate the need for safeguards to prevent arbitrary use of such power, the International […]

The body of slain newspaper editor and International Press Institute (IPI) World Press Freedom Hero Lasantha Wickrematunge was exhumed yesterday at Colombo’s general cemetery in the presence of a magistrate and under tight security as part of a fresh investigation into his death. Wickrematunge’s grave had been under armed guard since a new autopsy was […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today called on Russian authorities to bring to justice those responsible for yesterday’s assault on well-known investigative journalist Grigory Pasko, who was attacked while in the city of Barnaul in Russia’s Altai region to train local journalists. Pasko, director of the Community of Investigative Journalists – Fond 19/29, said that […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today condemned an Oman court’s decision giving three journalists prison time for reporting on alleged corruption within the country’s judiciary and ordering independent newspaper Azamn permanently closed. A court handed Azamn Editor-in-Chief Ibrahim al-Mamari and Deputy Editor Youssef al-Haj three-year prison sentences and fined them each 3,000 rials (approx. €6,900). The third […]