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🇺🇸 #USA: The IPI global network today expresses alarm over the arrest of Nashville Noticias journalist Estefany Rodríguez by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents and calls for her immediate release.
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As authoritarianism gains ground, women journalists are increasingly bearing the brunt of an accelerating global crackdown on press freedom.
This year, IPI is marking #IWD2026 by telling the stories of women journalists imprisoned around the world for their work.
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Read about last year’s awardee, Hungary’s independent media, recognized for their innovation, adaptation, and endurance under sustained pressure 👇
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⚡️ Help us recognize innovation in journalism!
🗓️ Submit your nominations by March 20 for IPI and @imsforfreemedia.bsky.social’s 2026 Free Media Pioneer award, recognizing trailblazing media organisations opening up new frontiers for the free flow of news.
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🔴#Italy: Media freedom has continued its overall downward trajectory amidst car bomb attack on one of the country’s most famous journalists, new spyware attacks, politicisation of RAI and continued concerns over pluralism. Read our mission statement👇
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🇬🇪#Georgia: IPI strongly condemns the Georgian parliament’s adoption of a sweeping new legislative package that criminalizes foreign funding and cooperation, warning it will paralyze the operations of the country’s vital independent media sector👇
🇽🇰#Kosovo: Later this month, IPI will join partner organisations of the Council of Europe Platform on the Safety of Journalists to conduct a two-day #mediafreedom fact-finding mission to #Pristina. It follows our previous visit in 2022. More info👇
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Thank you for applying to the 2026 Global AI Accelerator for Media! 👏
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Read about last year’s awardees, from Georgia, the U.S., Palestine, Peru, Hong Kong, Ukraine and Ethiopia 👇
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🌟 It's time to honour courage in journalism!
🗓️ Submit your nominations by March 20 for IPI and @imsforfreemedia.bsky.social's 2026 World Press Freedom Hero award, recognizing those who advance press freedom despite great personal risk.
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#Belarus: The IPI global network today condemns the acceleration of repression against independent media after 5 more journalists were sentenced to prison on politically motivated charges in just over one week.
Read our full statement👇
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⏳ Still plenty of time to prepare a killer proposal and get funding (up to €50k!) for your cross-border investigation.
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This year, IPI is marking #IWD2026 by telling the stories of women journalists imprisoned around the world for their work.
IPI stands with these brave journalists and will continue to fight for all journalists unjustly behind bars.
Read their stories:
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To mark International Women’s Day, IPI and MFRR publish a joint statement revealing growing role of digital platforms and AI in facilitating gender-based violence. Concrete safeguards are essential to ensure that women journalists can work safely and without a fear of reprisal.
🇺🇸 #USA: IPI is alarmed by the warrantless arrest of @NASHNOTICIAS reporter Estefany Rodríguez – a legal U.S. resident – by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
IPI calls for her release.
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🔴This week, IPI has been in #Brussels & #London to help launch 2025 report of Council of Europe’s Platform for the Safety of Journalists. The report - On the Tipping Point: Press Freedom 2025 - was written by Platform partners, including IPI. Download👇
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(3/3) @sozcutv.bsky.social anchor @ozlemgursess.bsky.social has announced that she is receiving death threats, sharing that she has been targeted by systematic harassment and intimidation. Gürses stated that she will file a criminal complaint regarding the threats to her safety.
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(2/3) @cnnturkcom.bsky.social reporter Emrah Çakmak and cameraman Halil Kahraman were detained by Israeli forces in Tel Aviv while on assignment. The journalists were interrogated about their reasons for filming before being released.
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(1/3) @ankahaber.net Editor-in-Chief Kenan Şener, and Koza TV’s Mehlika Bilen and Sergen Ölçer have been released after being detained for broadcasting near a military air base. They were accused of violating the “forbidden military zones” law while performing their duties.
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#Turkey: Four journalists detained, two held by Israeli forces following a live broadcast, and another received death threats. Here’s our weekly round-up of #pressfreedom developments in the country. 🧵👇
#NorthMacedonia: A recent defamation decision by the Court of Appeal against the Investigative Reporting Lab (IRL) is a worrying development for #mediafreedom in the country which should be overturned on further appeal. Read our full MFRR statement👇
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🇺🇦 Exclusive interview: journalist Vladyslav Yesypenko recounts the torture that he was subjected to by Russian occupying authorities in Crimea👇
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We demand the release of all 26 Ukrainian journalists whose lives are at risk in Russian captivity
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Call for nominations: IPI and @imsforfreemedia.bsky.social are now accepting nominees for this year’s World Press Freedom Hero and Free Media Pioneer awards.
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In cutting off communications, the regime is preventing Iranians from accessing critical news, and restricting the ability for media to share what could be lifesaving information.
Authorities must immediately restore internet access.
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🇮🇷 #Iran: The Iranian people have now spent more than 48 hours in a near-total information blackout, amid escalating military strikes by the U.S. and Israel.
The Iranian regime must not stifle the free flow of communications and of news and information.
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#Belarus: IPI condemns prison sentences for Uladzimir Yanukevich and Andrei Pakalenka.
The editors of Intex Press, formerly Belarus's largest independent newspaper, now shuttered by authorities, were sentenced to 14 and 12 years in prison respectively👇
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🔴Tomorrow, 3 March, IPI will be in Brussels to participate in launch of annual #pressfreedom report of Council of Europe’s Platform for the Safety of Journalists. A press conference will be held at Press Club Brussels Europe from 10:00–12:00 CET. Watch👇
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#Greece: IPI welcomes the recent criminal convictions handed down by a Greek court to four individuals from surveillance firm Intellexa whose Predator spyware was used to illegally surveil Greek journalist Thanasis Koukakis. Full statement👇
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🇲🇰#NorthMacedonia: IPI is shocked by the recent verdict by the Skopje Court of Appeal which upheld a controversial defamation ruling against leading investigative media, IRL. We support the appeal of this dangerous verdict to the Supreme Court. Info👇
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