A court in Bratislava today accepted the landmark indictment of four suspects accused of ordering and carrying out the murder of Slovakian investigative journalist Ján Kuciak and his financée Martina Kušnírová in 2018. The decision at the Special Criminal Court paves the way for the main trial to begin on January 13, 2020, in a […]

The International Press Institute (IPI), a global network of editors, media executives and leading journalists for press freedom, today welcomed the historic guilty verdicts handed down to the masterminds of the single deadliest attack on journalists in modern times. Today the prime suspects from the powerful Ampatuan family clan accused of carrying out the 2009 […]

The right to freedom of opinion and expression is facing severe threat around the world, as democracies and authoritarian regimes alike are undermining press freedom and the public’s right to information, the International Press Institute (IPI) said ahead of the Human Rights Day on December 10. The Vienna-based global network of editors, media executives and […]

The undersigned members of the global Executive Board of the International Press Institute (IPI) are appalled by death threats made against fellow IPI Executive Board member and Dawn editor Zaffar Abbas as well as Dawn CEO Hamid Haroon during demonstrations outside the offices of Dawn in Pakistan. On December 3 protestors laid siege to Dawn’s […]