The International Press Institute (IPI) today welcomed the release of Cuban blogger and IPI World Press Freedom Yoani Sánchez, who had been detained by Cuban authorities on Thursday evening while attempting to cover the trial of a Spanish activist accused of causing the death of a well-known dissident in a car crash. Sánchez was released […]

Security agents in Somalia’s semi-autonomous Puntland region shut down a popular radio station in Bosaso on Saturday morning, according to news reports and local journalists. The authorities accused the station of broadcasting programs that threaten Puntland’s security, but didn’t provide any evidence, according to Mohamed Ibrahim of the National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ). Horseed […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today expressed serious concern over a plan announced by the communications minister of Trinidad and Tobago to require the country’s radio and televison broadcasters to carry up to one hour of government programming per day. Emphasising that “the people must know what the Government is doing with its resources so […]

On Sunday, a special press court in Iran convicted Thomson Reuters’ Tehran bureau chief Parisa Hafezi of propaganda against the Islamic Republic for a video story in February that mistakenly described a group of female martial arts students as ninja “assassins”, reports said. A court sentence is expected within a week. After the martial arts […]