The International Press Institute (IPI) today joins partners of the Media Freedom Rapid Response (MFFR) in welcoming the recent ruling by a court in Athens which overwhelmingly dismissed the vexatious lawsuits against journalists from two Greek media outlets over their investigative reporting on the connections of the nephew of the country’s Prime Minister to a spyware […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) global network welcomes the release of Azerbaijani journalist Afgan Sadygov, who had been held in detention pending extradition in Georgia since August 4, 2024 — one day after his arrest in Tbilisi.  Authorities in Azerbaijan charged Sadygov, the head of the Azerbaijani news outlet and YouTube channel Azel.tv, with “threatening […]

The IPI global network today condemns the five and half year prison sentences handed to Russian journalists Antonina Favorskaya, Artem Kriger, Konstantin Gabov and Sergey Karelin. The four journalists were arrested in 2024, in the months after the death in jail of Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny, on charges of working for an “extremist” organization. […]