IPI on Tuesday said that heavy prison sentences recently handed down to two Rwandan journalists demonstrated the need for legal reforms in Rwanda. A Rwandan court on 4 February sentenced one journalist to 17 years in prison for defaming senior officials, and another to seven years, for inciting unrest. IPI is concerned that, in the […]

The Vienna-based South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), an affiliate of the International Press Institute (IPI), strongly condemns Thursday’s bomb attack on the weekly Galeria in Sofia, Bulgaria. A bomb exploded around 5:40 a.m. in front of the headquarters shared by the weekly publication and the Millennium publishing house in the central part of Sofia. […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today condemned last week’s murder of a television engineer during a violent attack on a TV station in Mexico. Rodolfo Ochoa, 27, was shot to death by masked intruders at dawn last Wednesday as he tried to telephone colleagues for help when the intruders burst into the transmission facilities of […]

The BBC has said that its Persian language service is being blocked in Iran, as a result of its continued coverage of the protests in Egypt. “The events in Egypt are being viewed by the entire world and it is wrong that our significant Iranian audience is being denied impartial news and information from BBC […]