September 5 marked four years since the murder of prominent Indian journalist Gauri Lankesh, the founding editor of the Kannada-language weekly tabloid Gauri Lankesh Patrike. She was shot dead outside of her house in Bangalore, an act thought to have been carried out by far-right Hindu nationalists. The same group is allegedly linked to the […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) and its partners in the Media Freedom Rapid Response (MFRR) today strongly condemn the attack on the Slovenian public broadcaster RTV Slovenija (RTVS) by Covid-19 deniers and anti-vaccination protesters last Friday.  At around 8:30pm on 3 September 2021, protesters broke into the RTVS studio in Ljubljana. The group of about […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) and its partners in the Media Freedom Rapid Response (MFRR) today strongly condemn the attack on the Slovenian public broadcaster RTV Slovenija (RTVS) by Covid-19 deniers and anti-vaccination protesters last Friday.  At around 8:30pm on 3 September 2021, protesters broke into the RTVS studio in Ljubljana. The group of about […]

The level of violence and oppression that journalists in Turkey face is escalating by the day – and women journalists are on the front line. After the publication of a police directive in May to prevent audiovisual reporting on protests, the number of incidents in which women journalists were physically assaulted by the police or prevented from […]