Five journalists stand accused of aiding terrorists in Ethiopia, charged under a recently enacted anti-terror law that provides for prison terms of up to 20 years for anyone who writes or publishes information that is seen to support or encourage terrorism, according to reports. The law was heavily criticized for its broad wording, which could […]

Umar Cheema is an award winning investigative reporter for The News, the largest English-language newspaper in Pakistan. In September 2010, he was kidnapped, tortured, blindfolded and handcuffed, and finally dumped outside Islamabad by masked men, who warned him not to speak about the incident. After his release, Cheema immediately went on television to tell his […]

To mark the 10th Anniversary of the September 11th attacks, the International Press Institute (IPI) interviewed Raphael Perl, head of the Action Against Terrorism Unit at the Secretariat of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE). Prior to assuming his current position, Perl served as the senior analyst for terrorism policy with the […]

Ten years after the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001, the world has changed for those who practice journalism. Policies adopted in the aftermath of the attacks have led to profound impacts on civil liberties, in particular freedom of expression and press freedom, as governments – in some cases quite cynically – have used the […]