Today a good friend of the International Press Institute (IPI) is celebrating his 80th birthday. It is with sincere respect and gratitude that we say Happy Birthday to Bishop Desmond Tutu, a staunch supporter of press freedom, freedom of speech and other basic human rights. It was just last year that Bishop Tutu sent us […]

Media reports on Tuesday that Zambian Watchdog reporter George Zulu is in police custody are not true, the reporter told IPI yesterday, while expressing concern that the newspaper’s staff is being intimidated by police who want them to reveal their sources on a controversial story. IPI Executive Director Alison Bethel McKenzie called on Zambia’s new […]

Members of the International Press Institute (IPI), the world’s oldest global press freedom organisation, have re-elected Prof. Dr. Carl-Eugen Eberle as chairman of the group’s 27-member Executive Board and have elected nine new board members. The move came at IPI’s Annual World Congress and General Assembly from 24-27 September in Taipei, Taiwan, where the group […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today called on Guyana’s president to rescind an order that effectively prevents an opposition TV station from broadcasting in the run-up to general elections later this year. The Associated Press (AP) reported that President Bharrat Jagdeo on Friday banned CNS TV-6 from broadcasting for four months, citing an allegedly slanderous […]