Austria’s draft freedom of information (FOI) law requires significant further reforms in order to meet international standards governing transparency and the right to information, Access Info Europe and the Vienna-based International Press Institute (IPI) said today upon jointly releasing an analysis of the draft. The analysis, conducted by Access Info, welcomes Austria’s initiative to replace […]

An Austrian investigative news platform that documented poor conditions in asylum-seeker housing across Austria was ordered Monday to pay nearly €2,000 for trespassing after the landlord of one of the housing sites brought suit. A regional court in the eastern Austrian state of Burgenland confirmed a lower court’s ruling that the platform, Dossier, had violated […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) has teamed with Austrian human rights film festival “this human world” to present a screening of director Jon Stewart’s “Rosewater”, depicting Iran’s brutal imprisonment of acclaimed journalist Maziar Bahari, followed by a discussion with Bahari himself about the film and his campaign #journalismisnotacrime. The event will take place at Vienna’s Filmcasino theatre (Margaretenstraße 78, 1050) on Dec. 8 beginning at 8:15 p.m.

Das International Press Institute (IPI) und das Film Festival „this human world“ präsentieren in einer Zusammenarbeit eine Vorführung von Regisseur Jon Stewarts Film „Rosewater“. Der Film zeigt die brutale Inhaftierung des berühmten Journalisten Maziar Bahari; im Anschluss an die Filmvorführung wird es eine Diskussion mit Maziar Bahari über den Film und seine Kampagne #journalismisnotacrime geben. Filmvorführung und Diskussion finden am 8. Dezember um 20:15 Uhr im Filmcasino (5. Margaretenstraße 78) statt.