The International Press Institute (IPI) today declared its support for the position of the South African National Editors’ Forum (Sanef) and Appeal Judge KK Mthiyane in the case of The Citizen vs. Robert McBride. IPI believes that South Africa’s Supreme Court of Appeals (SCA) ruled in contravention of the right to freedom of speech – […]

Seven years after Cuba’s notorious Black Spring clampdown on independent journalism, IPI calls for the immediate release of the 19 journalists jailed in 2003 who still remain in prison, as well as of the six other journalists jailed after 2003. On 18 March 2003, the government of Fidel Castro launched a crackdown on dissent in […]

Al Shabab militants in the southern regions of Somalia arrested three journalists from Markabley Radio this week, according to the National Union of Somali Journalists. Two of the three remain in custody, and the station has been taken off the air in response to the detentions. Mohamed Abdikarim and Mohamed Salad Abdulle, both reporters for […]

During regional elections in Russia on Sunday, independent observers reported allegations of voter fraud and attacks on the press, according to independent Russian election watchdog Golos. Journalist Olga Demidova, who writes for the newspaper Grazhdanksy Golos – affiliated with the Golos election watchdog – was assaulted by three unknown people and had her camera broken, […]