Pressure on Turkey’s media has become so intense that even online outlets, regarded by many observers as the last remaining space for free expression, now face an existential threat. In its 2015 special report on Turkey, “Democracy at Risk”, the International Press Institute (IPI) observed that “given the amount of pressure brought to bear on […]

Myanmar must not allow the case of a journalist killed in 2014 while in military custody to sink into impunity, the International Press Institute (IPI) said today after police dropped their investigation into the incident. Aung Kyaw Naing, better known as Ko Par Gyi, was shot in October 2014 while under military arrest near Kyaikmayaw, […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today condemned the recent arrests of two journalists in the Bastar region of Chhattisgarh, calling for their immediate release and an end to the media crackdown in the conflict-ridden central Indian state. On March 26, Deepak Jaiswal, a journalist for the Hindi-language daily newspaper Dainik Dainadi was arrested by police […]

Thailand’s ruling military junta has banned a prominent journalist from leaving the country to attend UNESCO’s 2016 World Press Freedom Day conference in Finland. Pravit Rojanaphruk – who requires government permission to travel abroad following a previous run-in with the junta – said this week that authorities had rejected his request to attend the May […]