A new coalition government is in place as Yemenis prepare for elections next month, which has been some cause for some optimism. Two Yemeni chief editors told IPI they were hopeful that nascent reforms within state media and the recent appointment of a new information minister, Ali al-Amrani, could herald overall improvements for the media […]

At least 16 journalists were among the hundreds of political prisoners and prisoners of conscience released today by the government of Myanmar, also known as Burma. The Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB), an exile newspaper based in Norway, confirmed on its website that five of its journalists had been released from various prisons around the […]

A bill to partially decriminalise defamation in Trinidad and Tobago received final parliamentary approval this week, the latest sign of growing momentum around the International Press Institute’s (IPI) Campaign to Repeal Criminal Defamation in the Caribbean. The Trinidad and Tobago Senate approved the bill on Tuesday, less than a month after passage in the House […]

The statement below was issued by the Tunisia Monitoring Group, a coalition of over 20 free expression and press freedom organizations including IPI that are grouped under the umbrella of the International Freedom of Expression eXchange (IFEX). IFEX-TMG concerned by attacks on journalists and academics Despite promises by Tunisia’s new government to uphold free expression, […]