On Monday 18 October, IPI sent a letter to Zambian Vice President George Kunda requesting that his government refrain from statutory regulation of the media in the southern African country. Copies of the letter were also hand-delivered to President Rupiah Banda and Information Minister Ronnie Shikapwasha, with whom an IPI delegation met twice during a […]

The South and East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), a network of editors, media executives and leading journalists from South East and Central Europe and an affiliate of the International Press Institute (IPI), is deeply alarmed by alleged threats received by TV B92 journalist Sonja Kamenkovic from Zajecar, Serbia. According to information received by SEEMO, since […]

Thirty-three years after an Apartheid regime banned two newspapers and clamped down on anti-apartheid activists and associations, South Africa recognized what is commonly known as “Black Wednesday” with a series of events around the country. In the country to lobby against proposed media regulations, IPI Acting Director Alison Bethel McKenzie said, “Today is a day […]

Egyptian authorities have introduced a host of new regulations ahead of parliamentary elections to be held on 29 November, in an apparent attempt to clamp down on independent media. The move comes less than three weeks after Ibrahim Eissa, editor-in-chief and founder of the private daily Al-Dustour, and a critic of the government, was dismissed after […]