Malawi President Bingu wa Mutharika has signed a bill into law that will make it possible for the country’s information minister to ban the publication and circulation of any publication deemed “contrary to the public interest,” sources in Malawi told IPI this week. News reports said that the amendment of Section 46 of the Penal […]

As protests grow in Egypt, with a reported million protestors calling on President Hosni Mubarak to cede power on Tuesday, journalists are reporting that citizens on the ground have found novel ways to circumvent the government-ordered communications crackdown. Egypt has shut down Internet access in the country, and mobile telephone networks have been severely disrupted. […]

The Association of Caribbean Media Workers (ACM) is saddened by the announcement by the British Broadcasting Corporation that its popular Caribbean Service is to be closed. The ACM wishes to pay tribute to the West Indian men and women and their British counterparts who strove for more than 40 years, and more recently, in more […]

IPI condemns the violence directed against journalists in the recent demonstrations in Egypt and calls for the release of arrested media personnel. Since Tuesday, during the largest anti-government protests Egypt has seen in several years, over 10 journalists have been beaten by security forces while others were detained. By Friday most Internet service across the […]