The International Press Institute (IPI) expressed alarm today over the Egyptian government’s decision to enforce a Mubarak-era law requiring all non-governmental organisations to register with the authorities or face criminal repercussions.  The deadline for registration is today, Nov. 10, 2014. A number of international organisations working in Egypt for press freedom, freedom of expression and […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today called on Egyptian authorities to heed criticism levelled against the country’s human rights record yesterday during a U.N. review. “Egypt’s government needs to ensure that the promises of free expression enshrined in the new Constitution approved early this year are actually implemented,” IPI Senior Press Freedom Adviser Steven M. […]

An Ethiopian court this week delayed proceedings for an 11th time against six bloggers and three independent journalists, who were arrested in April in connection with their activities as part of the Zone 9 collective. The court at a hearing on Tuesday adjourned the case until Nov. 12, 2014. The nine defendants, who were arrested […]

Lawyers for an Icelandic Interior Ministry official are requesting prison time for two journalists who erroneously identified the official as a target in a police investigation into a government leak. In June, journalists Jón Bjarki Magnússon and Jóhann Páll Jóhannsson incorrectly identified Þórey Vilhjálmsdóttir, a political assistant to Iceland’s interior minister, as “employee B”, who the […]