Authorities in Azerbaijan should thoroughly investigate a blogger’s accusations that police officers abducted and tortured him, rather than investigating the blogger for allegedly slandering police, the International Press Institute (IPI) said today. The country’s Ministry of Internal Affairs said yesterday that it had complained to prosecutors after blogger and activist Mehman Huseynov claimed that men […]

Paul Khlebnikov, editor-in-chief of the Russian edition of Forbes magazine, was shot and killed outside his office in Moscow on 9 July. Khlebnikov, 41, an American of Russian descent, was shot from a passing car about 100 meters from Forbes’ editorial offices in northern Moscow after he left work in the evening. He was hit […]

H. E. Vladimir Putin President of the Russian Federation Administration of the President Staraya Sq. 4 103132, Moscow Russian Federation Fax: + 7 (095) 206 51 73 / 206 07 66 / 206 35 66 Vienna, 19 July 2004 Your Excellency, The International Press Institute (IPI), the global network of editors, media executives and leading […]

<b>The undersigned partners of the Media Freedom Rapid Response (MFRR) today renew our call for an end to impunity for the shooting of investigative journalist Olivera Lakić in 2018 and hope the recent arrest of suspects will lead to all those involved ultimately facing justice. </b><b>Our organisations also welcome the recent cross party approval of […]