The International Press Institute today named Gambian publisher and editor Pap Saine an IPI World Press Freedom Hero in honour of his courageous work for press freedom in the face of attacks and harassment. Pap Saine is the publisher and editor of The Point, and the dean of Reuters’ correspondents in West and Central Africa. […]

A court in Azerbaijan’s Baku district of Garadag has sentenced opposition journalist Eynulla Fatullayev to an additional 30 months in prison. The journalist, who has been imprisoned since April 2007, was found guilty of illegal possession of narcotics, a charge based on small amounts of heroin which were allegedly found in his clothes in December […]

A day after a Tunisian appeals court upheld a four-year prison sentence for a journalist who covered violent protests against unemployment and corruption in the southern mining region of Gafsa, the International Press Institute (IPI) released a report outlining the pressure faced by journalists who cover corruption in Tunisia. The report follows IPI’s participation in […]

A second Polish journalist has been refused a visa for China, three months after his colleague was also “blacklisted” and denied entry into the country. Konrad Godlewski, 34, a freelance journalist commissioned by Gazeta Wyborcza, Poland’s largest daily newspaper, was denied entry to China for the China-Europe Forum in Chengdu from 7-11 July, despite having been […]