Following a visit to Ukraine from 24 May to 3 June to investigate Ukrainian photo-journalist Maks Levin’s death, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is releasing a report with information and evidence indicating that Levin and his friend and bodyguard were executed by Russian soldiers in a forest near Kyiv on 13 March, possibly after being interrogated and even tortured.
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09. jun 2022.
International groups call on Turkey’s parliament to reject the “disinformation” bill as a tool of digital censorship
Law designed to expand censorship online and criminalize free flow of information
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02. jun 2022.
Ukraine: French journalist Frédéric Leclerc-Imhoff killed by Russian shelling
The IPI global network mourns the death of the French journalist Frédéric Leclerc-Imhoff, who was tragically killed by Russian shelling in the city of Severodonetsk in eastern Ukraine on May 30. Leclerc-Imhoff had been a cameraman and reporter for the national TV station BFMTV since 2016. We express our deepest condolences to his family, friends, and colleagues.
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27. maj 2022.
Serbia: Tendering process of national FTA TV licences must be open and transparent
The International Press Institute (IPI today joins partner organisations of the Media Freedom Rapid Response (MFRR) and the Independent Journalists’ Association of Serbia (NUNS) is raising concern about the lack of a transparent process for the allocation of national free to air (FTA) TV licences in Serbia and of a Development Strategy for radio and audiovisual media services.
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12. maj 2022.
Veteran Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh shot and killed during Israeli raid in the West Bank
The IPI global network is horrified and deeply saddened over the killing of veteran Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, who was shot dead while reporting on an Israeli raid in the West Bank on May 11. According to Al Jazeera, Abu Akleh and a group of reporters were fired on by Israeli forces. IPI demands that the Israeli government conduct a thorough and transparent investigation into this killing, with the full and unconditional involvement of independent international experts, in order to determine those responsible, including whether the journalists were intentionally targeted.
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12. maj 2022.
Mexico: Two more journalists slain as violence toward the press escalates
Deadly violence towards the press in Mexico continues unabated as two more journalists, Yesenia Mollinedo Falconi and Sheila Johana García Olivera, were found slain in the Mexican state of Veracruz on May 9. This brings the number of journalists in Mexico who have been killed so far this year to 11 — making the country as deadly for the press as the current war zone of Ukraine. IPI demands that the Mexican government take immediate action to stop this bloodshed and to secure the safety of the country’s journalists.
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05. maj 2022.
New IPI report: Growing digital censorship in Turkey
IPI issues new report on media freedom in Turkey as government announces draft law on disinformation
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22. apr 2022.
How opposition-led towns in Hungary have become independent news deserts (HVG)
Circulation of government-acquired local newspapers has plummeted in rural Hungary, while state-funded propaganda is distributed for free, explains HVG
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14. apr 2022.
Greece: Journalist Thanasis Koukakis surveilled for 10 weeks with powerful new spyware tool
The International Press Institute (IPI) today expressed serious alarm over the confirmed surveillance of Greek journalist Thanasis Koukakis for more than two months using a powerful spyware tool, Predator. IPI calls on the competent Greek law enforcement authorities to thoroughly investigate and publicly identify the source of the surveillance.
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25. mar 2022.
Ukraine: Fifth journalist killed in line of duty in one month
The International Press Institute (IPI) today expresses deep sadness over the death of Russian journalist Oksana Baulina, who was tragically killed by Russian shelling in Kyiv while she was carrying out her professional duties. Amid growing attacks on the press in Ukraine, IPI calls on international investigatory bodies to prosecute all targeted attacks on the press as war crimes under international law.
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19. mar 2022.
In Serbia, Threats And Insults Are A Cost Of Reporting On Russia’s Invasion Of Ukraine
No one is comparing Miljko Stojanovic to increasingly at-risk foreign journalists covering Russia's invasion from the ground in Ukraine.
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04. mar 2022.
Ukraine: CoE platform partners demand protection of journalist safety
IPI and other members of the Council of Europe’s Platform to Promote the Protection of Journalism and Safety of Journalists today published a joint statement calling for the protection of journalists covering Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and for the provision of urgent and practical assistance to reporters on the ground.
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02. mar 2022.
Fellowship 2022: Choices – Call For Applications
We are awarding 10 fellowships to journalists from Central and South-Eastern Europe who have an idea for a story that needs dedicated on-the-ground reporting, in-depth research, generous funding and sustained editorial attention to do it justice.
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24. feb 2022.
IPI: Journalist safety must be protected as Russia launches invasion of Ukraine
The IPI global network of editors, journalists and publishers today expresses steadfast support for and solidarity with our members and journalist colleagues in Ukraine in the wake of Russia’s attack on the country. We demand that journalist safety and the right to cover developments independently and without fear of retaliation be protected.
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11. feb 2022.
Belarus: 18 months of media repression
On February 9, one-and-a-half years will have passed since presidential elections in Belarus widely considered to be fraudulent. Since then, journalists have been detained more than 500 times by the Belarusian state authorities as part of a wide-ranging crackdown on media freedom following nationwide protests.
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28. jan 2022.
Third Mexican Journalist Murdered This Year
A Mexican journalist who investigated corruption around the country and had been fearful for her life since 2019 was shot and killed outside her home in Tijuana on Sunday.
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21. dec 2021.
Serbia: Wave of lawsuits against investigative portal KRIK chills media freedom
IPI joins MFRR statement urging anti-SLAPP legislation after barrage of lawsuits
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14. dec 2021.
Hungary’s Szabolcs Panyi on how Pegasus surveillance has hindered his reporting
It took five months for Hungary to acknowledge publicly that it had bought the Pegasus spyware allegedly used to hack the phones of hundreds around the world. In November, Lajos Kósa, a top official from Hungary’s ruling Fidesz party, acknowledged the purchase in a media interview after a parliamentary meeting; Minister of the Interior Sándor Pintér confirmed it in front of a visiting delegation from the European Parliament it later in the month.
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03. dec 2021.
CPJ welcomes convictions in retrial for Serbian journalist Slavko Ćuruvija’s murder
In a retrial today, the Higher Court in Belgrade convicted four former Serbian state security officers of the 1999 murder of journalist Slavko Ćuruvija, owner of the mass-circulation Dnevni Telegraf, Serbia’s first private daily, and the weekly magazine Evropljanin, independent regional news website Balkan Insight reported. Ćuruvija, 51, was shot and killed on April 11, 1999, outside his home near the Yugoslav Parliament building.
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03. dec 2021.
Convictions overturned and retrial ordered for murder of Serbian journalist Ćuruvija
The International Press Institute (IPI), a global network of editors, media executives and leading journalists for press freedom, today expressed dismay after a court in Belgrade overturned the convictions of those found guilty of the 1999 murder of Serbian journalist Slavko Ćuruvija and ordered a retrial.