The International Press Institute (IPI) condemns the arrest of Ugandan journalist Timothy Kalyegira. He was detained on 31 May and charged with criminal libel after accusing Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni of being responsible for the bombings in the capital Kampala in July 2010, Reuters reported. The two blasts – which hit a restaurant and a […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today urged Sudanese authorities to drop criminal charges against at least five journalists who have published articles regarding the alleged rape and torture of a female youth activist while in the custody of security services. Journalist Omar el Garrai and the editor of Ajras Al-Hurria newspaper Abdallah Sheikh were in […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today condemned the two-and-a-half-year prison sentence handed down by Rwanda’s Supreme Court to an exiled journalist on 3 June, after he was found guilty of allegedly insulting President Paul Kagame and inciting civil disobedience, AFP reported. Jean Bosco Gasasira, editor of the newspaper Umuvugizi, was acquitted in September, but the […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today condemned the murder of a Mexican reporter who was found dead Tuesday after having been missing for nearly three months. Authorities discovered the body of journalist Noel López Olguín, who disappeared on 8 March, buried in a clandestine grave in the city of Chinameca in the Gulf coast state […]