The killing Monday of Maltese investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia in a car bomb has sparked shock and outrage across Europe. “The murder of a journalist in an EU member state is incredibly disturbing and underscores the dangers journalists everywhere face in their efforts to uncover wrongdoing,” International Press Institute (IPI) Executive Director Barbara Trionfi […]

Malta authorities must undertake an unrelenting investigation to find those responsible for Monday’s murder of well-known investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, the International Press Institute (IPI) said today. Caruana Galizia, 53, a blogger and newspaper columnist who has written extensively about corruption in the European Union’s smallest member state, was killed in a car bombing […]

Maltese prosecutors today indicted the man accused of ordering the 2017 murder of journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, in another important milestone in the fight against impunity and for full justice for her assassination. On August 18, prosecutors filed the bill of indictment in court seeking life imprisonment for businessman Yorgen Fenech on charges of complicity […]

Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatović today released a comparative study “Defamation and Insult Laws in the OSCE Region” finding that criminal law remains an instrument to excessively limit media freedom. Commissioned by the representative and conducted by International Press Institute (IPI) Director of Press […]