The International Press Institute (IPI), a global network of editors, media executives, and journalists for press freedom, condemns the arrest of journalist Ivan Golunov, who is a correspondent for the Russian-language online publication Meduza. On June 6, Golunov was detained on the street in central Moscow by plainclothes police officers for alleged drug violations. He […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) has joined an open letter to Maltese representatives at the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) expressing support for the work of Pieter Omtzigt, the special rapporteur appointed by PACE to examine the assassination of journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia. Omtzigt will present today his report on the rule […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) along with 20 other international press freedom and freedom of expression organizations today sent a joint letter to Turkish President Erdoğan, condemning the brutal attacks on two individual journalists in the last week. On May 10, journalist Yavuz Selim Demirağ, a regular contributor for the opposition newspaper Yeniçağ, was attacked […]

The International Press Institute (IPI), a global network of editors, media executives and journalists for press freedom, today condemned the destruction of the offices of Turkey’s Anadolu news agency in Gaza in an Israeli air strike on May 4. The building housing Anadolu’s offices was hit by five rockets fired by Israeli warplanes as violence […]