🇵🇸 Palestine: On October 6, Israeli settlers beat an @AFP photographer who was covering settler violence against West Bank farmers. IPI is alarmed by this blatant attack on the press and demands a full investigation that holds the perpetrators accountable. buff.ly/uqpsVlU

3/3: IPI is calling for an independent international mechanism empowered to investigate crimes against journalists when the state responsible will not. Russia left the European Convention on Human Rights in 2022, closing the last route. buff.ly/ZUTmFgU

🇷🇺 20 years ago today, Anna Politkovskaya was shot four times in the lift of her Moscow apartment building. She was 48, and had spent seven years documenting torture, disappearances, and abuses by Russian forces in Chechnya. buff.ly/ZUTmFgU

2/ But defamation and insult remain crimes in Albania. A claimant blocked in the civil courts can move to the criminal ones.

We urge the ministry to repeal those provisions and to open a real public consultation before the bill goes to parliament. buff.ly/zJOw0aJ

1/ 🇦🇱 Albania: IPI and partners have written to Justice Minister Toni Gogu welcoming a draft anti-SLAPP law, which would protect journalists and others from lawsuits filed to silence them. buff.ly/zJOw0aJ

🇬🇹 Guatemala: IPI condemns the killing of Evelio López Sánchez on October 2 in Huehuetenango while he was arriving home. López Sánchez, who ran the media outlet Huehue es Noticia, had previously reported receiving threats related to his journalistic work. buff.ly/RlQvnvK

🇸🇮 Slovenia votes Oct 11 on scrapping the licence fee that funds public broadcaster RTV SLO, with no replacement on the table.

IPI and MFRR partners warn this and a separate governance bill risk breaching the EU Media Freedom Act. buff.ly/me1uEB6

This week, IPI’s North American Committee sat down with Max Lederer, former publisher of Stars and Stripes to discuss the state of press freedom in the United States. buff.ly/fGIEycA

3/3: MFRR partners call on French and Ukrainian prosecutors to intensify efforts to identify those responsible, strengthen cooperation, and share evidence, including with the ICC. 16 journalists have been killed reporting in Ukraine since 2022. buff.ly/E6u2EhE

🇺🇦 One year ago today, a Russian FPV drone killed French photojournalist Antoni Lallican near the front line in eastern Ukraine. He and Ukrainian photojournalist Heorhii Ivanchenko were both wearing protective equipment marked PRESS. buff.ly/E6u2EhE

3/3: 85% of journalist killings worldwide go unpunished, a rate unchanged for a decade. IPI is calling for an international task force to investigate crimes against journalists, so cases do not depend on states investigating themselves. buff.ly/8wIYZDD

🇸🇦 Eight years ago today, Jamal Khashoggi walked into the Saudi consulate in Istanbul to collect a document for his marriage. Fifteen operatives were waiting. His fiancée waited outside for more than 10 hours. He never came out. buff.ly/8wIYZDD

🇷🇴 #Romania: IPI condemns the numerous attacks against journalists documenting a recent violent protest in Bucharest and calls on law enforcement authorities to ensure those responsible are swiftly identified and prosecuted.

🔗Read IPI’s full statement: buff.ly/QkJjRXV