At the close of the year, the International Press Institute (IPI) takes a look at 10 states that have poor records on press freedom, but on whose strategic support the west depends. These ‘Friends’ of the West, Enemies of Press Freedom are listed in no particular order below. *********************************************************** Turkey Friend: Relations between the west and […]

Happy holidays from the International Press Institute (IPI), headquartered in Vienna, Austria, but fighting diligently for press freedom around the world. We all know the importance of press freedom; in fact, many of us have sacrificed greatly in the fight for freedom of expression and a free press. This year alone there have been several […]

Two editors with Hungarian state television have been fired over their ongoing hunger strike in protest against government manipulation of news content. AP reported today that public broadcaster MTV fired Balazs Nagy Navarro and Aranka Szavuly after labelling their fast – which began on 10 December and during which they are consuming only liquids – […]

An Ethiopian court Tuesday sentenced two Swedish journalists to 11 years in prison for allegedly supporting terrorism while officials in China handed down a nine-year prison sentence for a dissident online journalist, news reports said. Johan Persson and Martin Schibbye were convicted in Ethiopia last week after being arrested in July in the Ogaden, a […]