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Media freedom groups demand renewed investigation into crimes against Romanian journalist

Read the Romanian translation below/Citiți mai jos acest text în limba română   In an open letter to the Romanian General Prosecutor IPI joins seven other journalists and media freedom organizations in condemning the negligent and error-strewn investigation into the crimes committed against journalist Emilia Șercan. A month after revealing that Nicolae Ciucă, then Prime […]

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Russia: IPI demands immediate release of Alsu Kurmasheva

The IPI global network calls on Russian authorities to immediately release journalist Alsu Kurmasheva, who was detained in the city of Kazan on October 18. Kurmasheva was arrested in Kazan, the capital of the region of Tatarstan, where she traveled in May due to urgent family issues. She attempted to leave Russia on June 2, […]

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IPI joins media freedom groups in calling for justice for Daphne Caruana Galizia and press safety in Malta

On the sixth anniversary of the murder of Maltese investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, we, the undersigned organizations, renew our calls for Maltese authorities to bring to justice all those responsible for her killing and to implement in full the recommendations of the public inquiry into her assassination. Caruana Galizia, who rose to prominence through her anti-corruption investigations […]

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Malta: Fight for justice and reforms continues on sixth anniversary of Daphne Caruana Galizia murder

The International Press Institute (IPI) today marks the sixth anniversary of the assassination of Maltese journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, pays tribute to her family and colleagues who continue the long fight for justice, and stresses the importance of ending impunity and securing systemic reforms to the media landscape which ensure such a tragedy is never […]

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