Latest News on Journalist Safety and Impunity

España: Los partidos políticos deben reforzar la libertad de expresión

El próximo Gobierno español debería derogar la controvertida Ley de Seguridad Ciudadana y recuperar la independencia de la RTVE, según un informe elaborado por un grupo de organizaciones internacionales defensoras de la libertad de prensa que se ha publicado hoy.

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With newest murders, assault on free expression deepens in Bangladesh

The Bangladeshi government must take swift action to protect all individuals exercising their freedom of expression in the country, the International Press Institute (IPI) said today, following last week’s murder of book publisher Faisar Arefin Dipan and attacks on three others. Dipan was found hacked to death on Saturday in his office shortly after news […]

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IPI releases report on press freedom mission to Turkey

The International Press Institute (IPI) today released a report on the Joint International Emergency Press Freedom Mission to Turkey undertaken last week by a broad coalition of international free expression and press freedom groups. The report builds on mission participants’ finding that escalating pressure on media in the period between parliamentary elections in June and […]

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International editors demand protection of press in Turkey

More than 50 leading international media editors have written an open letter to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan raising profound concerns about the deteriorating conditions for press freedom in Turkey in the run up to the elections. The letter and a full list of signatories follow below. Signatories include Dean Baquet, executive editor, the New York […]

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