The International Press Institute (IPI) today condemned the killing of a Mexican photojournalist who appeared to have been tortured before being shot in the head in Mexico City. Ruben Espinosa, a photojournalist from the Gulf Coast state Veracruz, was found late on Friday with severe injuries to his face. The journalist fled Xalapa, capital of […]

This November, Myanmar will hold its first democratic general election since the end of nearly 50 years of military rule, but events of this past month raise questions about whether the press will be free enough to cover it fairly and informatively. At IPI’s 2015 World Congress in Yangon in March, Information Minister Ye Htut […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) said today that it was increasingly concerned for the well-being of imprisoned Egyptian freelance photojournalist Mahmoud Abou Zeid and called on Egypt to release him without delay. Abou Zeid, also known as “Shawkan”, has been held without official charges since Aug. 14, 2013, when he was arrested while covering a […]

In a bombshell video leaked yesterday to the Malaysian press, a former Malaysian deputy prime minister appeared to suggest that Prime Minister Najib Razak had admitted to embezzling over 600 million euros in national development funds, an allegation first published last week by the whistleblowing website Sarawak Report. Malaysia’s government blocked the Sarawak Report on […]