The Bangladeshi government must take swift action to protect all individuals exercising their freedom of expression in the country, the International Press Institute (IPI) said today, following last week’s murder of book publisher Faisar Arefin Dipan and attacks on three others. Dipan was found hacked to death on Saturday in his office shortly after news […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today released a report on the Joint International Emergency Press Freedom Mission to Turkey undertaken last week by a broad coalition of international free expression and press freedom groups. The report builds on mission participants’ finding that escalating pressure on media in the period between parliamentary elections in June and […]

More than 50 leading international media editors have written an open letter to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan raising profound concerns about the deteriorating conditions for press freedom in Turkey in the run up to the elections. The letter and a full list of signatories follow below. Signatories include Dean Baquet, executive editor, the New York […]

A decision by South Korean prosecutors to seek jail time for a Japanese journalist accused of defaming the South Korean president risks chilling media coverage of political figures, the International Press Institute (IPI) said today. Prosecutors announced on Monday that they would request an 18-month prison sentence for Tatsuya Kato, former Seoul bureau chief of […]