Chinese journalist Qi Chonghuai, who has been jailed since September 2007, has been handed an additional eight-year sentence on the same charges, in breach of Chinese law. Until his detention in 2007, Qi had been working as a journalist and editor for different mainstream news media outlets, including the Fazhi Zaobao (“Legal System Morning News”), […]

The Vienna-based South East Europe Organisation (SEEMO), supported by the Austrian Cooperation Eastern Europe – Austrian Development Agency, and in cooperation with the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) Mission in Serbia, the International Press Institute (IPI) and the International News Safety Institute (INSI), announces its annual meeting of journalists dedicated to investigative […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today condemned the recent attacks on two radio stations, the detention of a journalist, and the ongoing trials against at least eight others in Eastern Africa. Local Somali radio stations Codka Hiiraan and Dhusamareb were seized on 22 June, and the editor of the latter was detained briefly on the […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today welcomed the passage late last month in Nigeria of a freedom of information bill, termed the Right of Information Act. Nigeria is the second country in West Africa to pass legislation that explicitly protects access to information, a universal human right. “After more than ten years of pushing for […]