The International Press Institute (IPI), a global network of editors, media executives and leading journalists for press freedom, today called on the chief prosecutor in Bulgaria to ensure a transparent investigation is conducted into recent death threats against investigative journalist Nikolay Staykov. Staykov, a well-known Bulgarian journalist who co-founded the NGO Anti-Corruption Fund, told IPI […]

The International Press Institute (IPI), a global network of editors, media executives and leading journalists for press freedom, today called on the chief prosecutor in Bulgaria to ensure a transparent investigation is conducted into recent death threats against investigative journalist Nikolay Staykov. Staykov, a well-known Bulgarian journalist who co-founded the NGO Anti-Corruption Fund, told IPI […]

About this blog: IPI member and representative İpek Yezdani attended the opening of the Jamal Khashoggi murder trial on July 3, 2020 in Istanbul. This is her account of the trial’s first day.

In April 2019, a special court in Belgrade reached a landmark verdict in the trial for the murder of Serbian journalist Slavko Ćuruvija, an investigative reporter and owner of the Dnevni Telegraf newspaper and Evropljanin magazine. Ćuruvija, who was a vocal critic of Yugoslav president Slobodan Milošević and was considered an opponent of the regime […]