The International Press Institute (IPI) is extremely troubled by an attack on the Dainik Ganadoot newspaper Sunday, May 19, in the northeastern Indian state capital of Agartala, which left three employees dead. IPI today urged local police to thoroughly investigate the attack and bring those responsible to justice. According to local reports, several masked assailants […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today expressed outrage that the U.S. government searched a reporter’s private communications on the ground that his use of flattery to obtain information from a State Department source made him a co-conspirator to espionage. In a court affidavit first obtained last week by The Washington Post, the FBI said there […]

Excessive state regulation established by Ecuador’s newly passed media law poses a serious and immediate threat to independent journalism, the International Press Institute (IPI) stated in a special report released today. The report, a comprehensive review of press freedom developments in Ecuador since IPI’s visit to the country in May 2012, concludes that the situation […]

In the midst of its World Congress in Jordan, the International Press Institute (IPI) today demanded an end to a police siege of Uganda’s Monitor newspaper. IPI members, meeting at their 62nd Annual General Assembly, agreed to an emergency call to “send a strong message” urging the government of Uganda to ensure that the Monitor’s […]