The International Press Institute (IPI) today strongly condemned the murder of Slovak investigative journalist Jan Kuciak and his fiancée. Slovak police said at a press conference this morning that they believed the murder to be work-related. Kuciak worked for the online investigative news outlet Aktuality.sk. The 27-year-old journalist was known in particular for his stories on tax fraud […]

Over the course of just one month in Belarus, the popular independent website Charter ’97 was blocked, a Belsat journalist was beaten up by police and a reporter had his home searched after an article on police brutality. On February 18, Andrus Kozel was livestreaming content from a polling station for Belsat, an independent, Polish-funded […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today welcomed a decision by Serbia’s interior ministry granting Belgian reporter Philippe Bertinchamps a residence permit after previously denying Bertinchamps’s application on spurious “public order” grounds. According to reports, Bertinchamps, who has lived and reported from Belgrade as a correspondent for French-speaking media for many years, was threatened with expulsion […]

The Pakistani government is currently considering a new bill that, if eventually passed, would be the country’s first law on the safety and protection of journalists. While the draft text contains several points that would set a new precedent for protecting Pakistan’s media, concerns about the law’s implementation remain. Undisputed is the need for safety […]