The South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), a network of editors, media executives and leading journalists in South East and Central Europe and an affiliate of the International Press Institute (IPI), is alarmed to hear that on 9 August 2010 the mayor of the Serbian city of Zajecar, Bosko Nicic decided to prevent all directors […]

IPI on Wednesday sent an open letter to South African President Jacob Zuma expressing concern over the African National Congress’s recent call for a Media Appeals Tribunal, as well as a Protection of Information law that is currently before parliament. The Tribunal is conceived by the ruling party as an independent statutory body that would […]

The International Press Institute (IPI), the world’s oldest global press freedom organisation with members from the world’s leading media outlets, addressed an open letter to Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych on Tuesday respectfully urging him to address a disturbing deterioration in press freedom over the last six months in Ukraine. President Yanukovych won election in February […]

Iranian journalist and dissident Akbar Ganji was today declared a World Press Freedom Hero by the International Press Institute (IPI), in recognition of his decades of work defending freedom of speech and equal rights for all, in the face of continued harassment and imprisonment. Often called ‘Iran’s most prominent political dissident’, Ganji spent six years […]