The International Press Institute (IPI) today joined partner organisations in the Media Freedom Rapid Response (MFRR) in writing to the Director and Deputy Director of the Lithuanian State Data Protection Inspectorate (SDPI) to express concern at its attempted obstruction of investigative project “Karštos Pėdos” (“Hot Feet”)’s journalistic activity. ——————————- 27 January 2022 Dear Director Andrijauskas, […]

The death sentences that an Egypt court recently recommended for three journalists in absentia are unjust and must not be allowed to stand, the International Press Institute (IPI) said today. The court made the recommendation on Saturday in a case charging the journalists and three others with endangering national security by leaking state secrets and […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today condemned the attempted shooting of Turkish journalist Can Dündar today outside the courthouse where he was expected to hear the verdict in a criminal case over reports claiming that Turkey’s intelligence agency secretly armed Islamist rebel groups in Syria. Dündar, editor-in-chief of daily newspaper Cumhuriyet, escaped unharmed when a […]

The Honduran government must do more to bring journalists’ attackers to justice, the International Press Institute (IPI) said today, two days after a radio journalist survived two apparent attempts on his life in a single day in the country’s capital city of Tegucigalpa. Radio journalist Felix Molina said that he was twice accosted by armed […]