The International Press Institute (IPI) today called on Ukrainian authorities to investigate a recent arson attack on the office of investigative website Chetverta Vlada in Rivne, northwestern Ukraine. Separately, IPI asked Ukrainian authorities to explain the seizure of Kiev newsrooms belonging to the media company Vesti and to allow the company’s journalists access to their […]

Leer en español For the Platform in Defence of Free Expression (PDLI), 2017 was a very bad year for freedom of expression, in particular due to the terrorism convictions of individuals who have no links to violent activity and who were instead charged on the basis of opinions expressed on social networks or for their […]

Leer en español The Madrid-based Platform for the Defence of Free Expression (PDLI) has announced that it will create an observatory to monitor the harassment of female journalists on social media in Spain in cooperation with the Spanish Federation of Journalist Unions (FeSP), which is a member of the platform. According to the Organization for […]

Zur deutschen Version Online freedom continues to decline in Turkey, leading to growing self-censorship by its journalists. Twitter’s latest biannual Transparency Report, covering the first half of this year, showed that Turkish authorities continued to make the most requests to the website to remove or withhold content, accounting for approximately 45 percent of all requests […]