The International Press Institute (IPI) today condemned the attempted shooting of Turkish journalist Can Dündar today outside the courthouse where he was expected to hear the verdict in a criminal case over reports claiming that Turkey’s intelligence agency secretly armed Islamist rebel groups in Syria. Dündar, editor-in-chief of daily newspaper Cumhuriyet, escaped unharmed when a […]

The Honduran government must do more to bring journalists’ attackers to justice, the International Press Institute (IPI) said today, two days after a radio journalist survived two apparent attempts on his life in a single day in the country’s capital city of Tegucigalpa. Radio journalist Felix Molina said that he was twice accosted by armed […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today joined free expression and press freedom watchdogs across the globe in commemorating World Press Freedom Day. In a video interview from IPI’s Vienna headquarters, IPI Director of Advocacy and Communications Steven M. Ellis noted that press freedom is necessary to creating just and fair societies, and he saluted the […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) will mark this year’s World Press Freedom Day by joining leading press freedom defenders in presenting a panel discussion on journalists’ safety as part of worldwide celebrations organised by the U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in Finland. The discussion, organised thanks to the support of the Helsingin Sanomat Foundation, […]