“We were sitting in a coffee shop [in Doha, Qatar], the lawyer and myself, and by chance another Egyptian was passing by the coffee shop,” Egyptian journalist Ibrahim Helal recounts. “He was also sentenced [in Egypt in absentia].” Helal continues: “We started to make jokes – you introduce yourself to me, I’m Egyptian, you’re Egyptian, […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today condemned Bahrain’s arrest of prominent human rights defender Nabeel Rajab on charges of “spreading false news and rumours about the internal situation in a bid to discredit Bahrain” and it called for his immediate and unconditional release. Rajab, who is the president and co-founder of the Bahrain Center for […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today joined 28 other members of IFEX in calling on Tongan Prime Minister Samuela ʻAkilisi Pohiva to end the harassment of local journalist Viola Ulakai and to cease threats to have her suspended. Ulakai, head of programmes and news at the publicly-owned Tonga Broadcasting Commission (TBC), had been urging the […]

Read this statement in English. El Instituto Internacional de la Prensa (IPI, por sus siglas en inglés), escritores y miembros de la red de Intercambio Internacional por la Libertad de Expresión (IFEX) instan a todos los estados miembros, observadores permanentes y otros donantes potenciales de la OEA a que reconsideren su falta de apoyo económico […]