Latest News on Journalist Safety and Impunity

Turkey Free Expression Trial Monitoring Report September – 2019

The International Press Institute (IPI) in collaboration with the Media and Law Studies Association (MLSA), today published the third trial monitoring report on freedom of expression cases in Turkey. This report is part of a programme of monitoring that started in June 2018 and confirms findings of the two earlier reports, published in July and January 2019, that the […]

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UK parliament report urges stronger action to defend media freedom

A new report by the Foreign Affairs Committee of the UK Parliament underscored the global threat to media freedom and said the UK government must “move beyond the rhetoric” and publicly shame and sanction those who attack the press. While the Committee welcomed the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO)’s ongoing media freedom campaign, it concluded […]

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Europe must pressure Malta in Carauana Galizia investigation, son says

Matthew Caruana Galizia, son of journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia who was killed almost two years ago by a car bomb in Malta, today called for greater international pressure for an independent inquiry into his mother’s assassination. Speaking today at a press conference in Vienna with International Press Institute (IPI) Executive Director Barbara Trionfi, Caruana Galizia, […]

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IPI urges U.S. Afghan envoy to prioritize journalist safety in Taliban talks

The International Press Institute (IPI), a global network of editors, media executives and leading journalists for press freedom, has urged U.S. Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation Zalmay Khalilzad to make the safety of journalists a priority in his ongoing U.S.-Taliban talks. In a letter to the U.S. special representative, IPI said that media organizations in […]

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