The International Press Institute (IPI) has joined seven other leading international press freedom and free expression organisations in urging member states (“participating states”) of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) to fill the vacant position of OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media (RFoM). The organisations underscored that the next office older […]

At the International Press Institute (IPI)’s 2017 World Congress last month in Hamburg, Paul Nemitz, principal advisor to the European Commission’s Director General for Justice and Consumer Protection, highlighted three challenges to media freedom in Europe: Government pressure on critical journalists, media concentration, and the impact technology companies have on the revenue models of traditional media. “If […]

“Prisoners struggle with the feeling of being forgotten and being alone,” Mesfin Negash, program director at the Stockholm-based NGO Civil Rights Defenders, said in accepting the IPI World Press Freedom Hero Award on behalf of imprisoned Ethiopian journalist and blogger Eskinder Nega. “This is a way to let [Eskinder] know that we value his work”. […]

The International Press Institute today called on Azerbaijani authorities to release journalist Afgan Mukhtarli, who was apparently kidnapped in neighbouring Georgia on Monday and forcibly returned to Azerbaijan, where he now faces charges of smuggling and illegal border crossing. Mukhtarli’s lawyer, Elchin Sadigov, told the Associated Press that his client was abducted from his home […]