The International Press Institute today appealed to European Commission leaders to make press freedom a priority in ongoing membership talks with Turkey amid concern over verbal attacks on news organisations and continued legal hurdles to free expression in the country. IPI Director David Dadge held meetings with Ollie Rehn, the enlargement commissioner, and other officials […]

The Vienna-based South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), a network of editors, media executives and leading journalists from South East Europe and an affiliate of the International Press Institute (IPI), is deeply concerned about the physical attack on journalist Abdulhalim Dede on 19 February while he was on-air during the morning programme, Kalimera Ellada, broadcast […]

More than six years after her detention and torture, Nepalese journalist Meena Sharma Tiwari has been granted compensation of 15,000 Nepalese rupees (150 euros) by the Appellate Court. Tiwari is the fourth Nepalese journalist to receive compensation in connection with detention and mistreatment by the authorities. “IPI welcomes the judgment as an important sign of […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) and the South East Europe Media Organisation today reiterated earlier calls for Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan to refrain from verbal attacks on the media. This latest call follows the 30 January assault on journalists during a public speech in which the prime minister condemned the press for being […]