On the eve of a trial scheduled to start on March 25, 2016, a coalition of leading international free expression and press freedom groups condemns the criminal case targeting Cumhuriyet journalists Can Dündar and Erdem Gül, and calls on authorities in Turkey to drop all charges against them. Dündar, editor-in-chief of Cumhuriyet, and Gül, the […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today demanded an explanation from Turkish authorities after prominent Syrian journalist and human rights defender Mazen Darwish reported that he was stopped at Istanbul’s Ataturk Airport, struck and prevented from travelling to Doha, where he was to speak at IPI’s World Congress. Darwish said that immigration agents in Turkey accused […]

On the opening day of the International Press Institute (IPI)’s 2019 World Congress in Geneva, Switzerland, leading editors called for greater efforts to expose and combat targeted online smear campaigns against journalists. Speaking at the World Congress’s Town Hall Meeting, Zaffar Abbas, editor of the Pakistani daily Dawn, said state and non-state actors were increasingly […]

A Baku appeals court today ordered the conditional release of an Azerbaijani journalist sentenced in December to six years in prison on a spurious treason charge. Rauf Mirgadirov was arrested in April 2014 at Baku’s Heydar Alivev Airport after being abruptly deported from Turkey, where had worked as a correspondent for two Azerbaijani newspapers. The […]