The International Press Institute (IPI), a global network of editors, media executives and journalists, today commended the continued illegal detention of prominent Al Jazeera journalist and IPI member Mahmoud Hussein, who has now spent three years behind bars in Egypt’s shadowy prison system. Despite never having been charged, tried or convicted, the Egyptian national has […]

  The International Press Institute (IPI) spoke with Mohammed Abu Zeid, brother of Mauhmoud Abu Zeid, also known as “Shawkan”, an independent photojournalist imprisoned in Egypt for more than 5 years. He was arrested while covering the Rabaa sit-in dispersal on August 14th 2013, and put in pre-trial detention. Shawkan is being accused, among other, […]