Wu Xiaobo, a prominent Chinese financial and business journalist, has been banned from the Chinese social media app Weibo. The IPI global network condemns this most recent action to censor the Chinese press as well as the government’s long-standing restrictions on the free flow of information. On Tuesday, June 27, a banner appeared on Wu’s […]

Senegal must immediately and unconditionally release journalist Maty Ndaye Niang, and columnists Cheik Bara Ndiaye and Oustaz Assane Seck, the International Press Institute (IPI) said. Authorities must stop the legal harassment and detention of critical journalists and dissidents, and review and revise legal provisions detrimental to press freedom and freedom of expression.  Niang, who works […]

The undersigned organisations call on the incoming Spanish Presidency of the Council of the European Union to place media freedom and human rights front and centre of relations with the newly re-elected Government of Turkey.  The May elections, which saw a parliamentary majority for the AKP and its allies and the re-election of Recep Tayyip […]

The International Press Institute (IPI), the global network of editors, journalists, and media executives for press freedom, condemns the arrest of TELE1 TV Editor-in-Chief Merdan Yanardağ in Istanbul. Yanardağ was detained after criticizing the detention conditions of PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan during a news programme. We call on the Turkish authorities to stop punishing journalists […]