Livia Klingl is a foreign affairs expert at Austrian daily “Kurier.” She returned from Cairo last night, where she was one of dozens of journalists that have been harassed and attacked in the past two days. Klingl spoke with the International Press Institute (IPI) on Friday 4 February and gave this first hand account of […]

Egyptian authorities this morning released detained correspondent Serge Dumont of Belgium’s Le Soir newspaper and three France24 journalists who were arrested last night, but later took the four back into custody, Le Soir’s chief of information told the International Press Institute (IPI). Jurek Kuczkiewicz said authorities re-arrested Dumont and the three unidentified French correspondents and […]

The Nigerian National Committee on International Press Institute (IPI) has condemned what is described as “the rising wave of media harassment in the country.” In a communiqué jointly signed by IPI chairman Mallam Kabiru Yusuf and Secretary Raheem Adedoyin at the end of its meeting held in Abuja yesterday which reviewed the state of free […]

Yemeni journalist and Al-Qaeda analyst Abdulelah Haidar Shaia was released on Tuesday, two weeks after he was handed a five-year prison term for allegedly recruiting for Al-Qaeda and taking photos of potential Al-Qaeda targets for the Islamist terrorist group, reports said. He was released on a presidential order, according to news reports, although it was […]