IPI and its global network today denounce the continued legal intimidation by Russian authorities against Christo Grozev, the lead Russia investigator at Bellingcat, a Netherlands-based international investigative journalism collective. On 21 April, legal pressure against Grozev in Russia escalated further when a district court in Moscow placed the journalist under arrest in absentia on the […]

Following a visit to Belgrade on April 10 and 11 2023 to commemorate the murder anniversary of editor and publisher Slavko Ćuruvija, the International Press Institute (IPI) today joins the undersigned international press freedom and journalists’ organisations in issuing a stark warning over the state of media freedom and journalists’ safety in Serbia. Ahead of […]

This article, republished by IPI, was written by Serbian journalist and IPI World Press Freedom Hero Veran Matić, chair of Serbia’s Commission for the Investigation of Murders of Journalists It’s Easter again, a holiday that I associate more with the murder of Slavko Ćuruvija than with a family holiday. Eight years after Ćuruvija‘s murder in […]

To mark the twenty-fourth anniversary of the murder of Serbian editor and publisher Slavko Ćuruvija, the International Press Institute (IPI) today joins press freedom organisations in visiting Belgrade to renew our calls for justice and issue fresh warnings about the current climate for the safety of journalists. The mission to Belgrade comes 24 years after […]