One week after sending an open letter to South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma expressing concern at moves by the government and the ruling ANC party to pass an Information Bill and create a Media Appeals Tribunal answerable to Parliament, the International Press Institute (IPI) today called on South African Minister for State Security Siyabonga Cwele to seriously […]

Ukraine’s Kiev Administrative Court of Appeals has postponed a 16 August hearing on the withdrawal of frequencies from a number of television channels, including TVi and Channel 5. The new date for the hearing has been set for 26 August. The director of TVi, Mykola Kniazhytsky, told IPI that the official reason for the postponement […]

The South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), a network of editors, media executives and leading journalists from South East and Central Europe and an affiliate of the International Press Institute (IPI), condemns the assault on Victor Ciobanu, a journalist for Jurnalul TV in Moldova. According to information received by SEEMO, on 28 July 2010 Ciobanu […]

The deputy director of a radio station in the semi-autonomous region of Puntland was sentenced Saturday to six years in prison for airing an interview with the head of an insurgent group that is currently fighting the regional government. Abdifatah Jama Mire of Horseed Media FM, a national Somali radio network, was found guilty of […]