The International Press Institute (IPI) is today joined by the undersigned international media freedom organisations today raise concerns over recent revelations about the physical surveillance and wiretapping of an investigative journalist by a local branch of the Romanian National Anticorruption Directorate (DNA) and call for an investigation into this and previous cases of surveillance on […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today joins journalist and civil society organisations in writing to state and judicial authorities in Romania to raise concerns over the recent revelations about the surveillance of a journalist by a local office of the country’s National Anticorruption Directorate in 2023. IPI joins widespread criticism of the recently revealed wiretap […]

The IPI global network is deeply concerned by measures introduced in Pakistan’s newly amended cybercrime law, including provisions related to hate speech and misinformation, that can be used to target journalists and curtail press freedom.  We urge the government to revise the legislation in line with international human rights standards,  in consultation with the media community […]

As the third anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine approaches, Ukrainian journalists continue to face serious risks and threats related to their reporting on the war, the results of IPI’s three-year monitoring program show. Attacks by Russian forces on media offices and infrastructure, as well as cyberattacks, intensified over the past year, and at […]