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“They cannot control the sky,” defiant Kalima Editor-in-Chief Sihem Bensadrine tells IPI

The IFEX Tunisia Monitoring Group (IFEX-TMG), of which IPI is a member, on 29 January deplored the aggressive interference by police with the Tunis-based offices of Radio Kalima, an independent media outlet in Tunisia that runs an online news site and web-based radio station. Editor-in-Chief Sihem Bensadrine, who is also the founder of the Conseil […]

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Two years after Dink killing, IPI urges Turkey to repeal repressive law

Two-years ago today, a self-professed Turkish nationalist-extremist killed renowned journalist Hrant Dink in an Istanbul street. Prior to the killing, the courts had found Dink guilty of insulting “Turkishness,” and therefore of breaching the country’s infamous Article 301. Turkey’s leaders admitted that problems exist with the highly contentious law in the wake of Dink’s murder. […]

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IPI calls impunity a ‘dark stain’ on Sri Lankan government

The International Press Institute joined other leading media rights organisations today in condemning a “culture of impunity and indifference” over attacks on journalists in Sri Lanka. Since the beginning of the year, the killing of a senior editor and the attack on the facilities of a popular independent TV channel have led to a paralysis […]

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IPI urges Nepal to investigate attack on journalists

Nepal’s government should move swiftly to investigate the apparent gang killing of a well-known female journalist and harassment of another reporter in the southeastern town of Janakpur, the International Press Institute (IPI) said Wednesday. Uma Singh, a broadcast journalist for Radio Today FM in Janakpur, was stabbed repeatedly by a group of approximately 15 people […]

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