On 15 October, the International Press Institute (IPI) and the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) received a statement from one of the presidents of the divided Ethiopian Free Press Journalists’Association (EFJA), Kifle Mulat. In that statement, Mulat outlined his commitment to hold a fourth EFJA General Assembly for the purposes of choosing a new EFJA […]

On 24 July the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) raided seven Hong Kong newspapers, Apple Daily, the Hong Kong Economic Journal, the Oriental Daily News, Sing Tao Daily, the South China Morning Post, the Sun and the Ta Kung Pao. During the raids, which were conducted with search warrants, the ICAC officers searched the offices […]

H.E. Aleksandr Lukashenko President Office of the President Minsk Republic of Belarus Fax: +375 17 222 35 03 Vienna, 3 November 2004 Your Excellency, The International Press Institute (IPI), the global network of editors, media executives and leading journalists in over 120 countries, strongly condemns the prison sentence handed to Pavel Mazheyka, head of the […]

Nepal’s Kamana Publication Group (KPG) and the Nepal chapter of the International Press Institute (IPI) announced they will award this year’s “Bhusan Journalism Award” to ten conflict-affected journalists and their families as a token of assistance. The award carries a purse of Rs 100,000 (US$ 1,500), which will be distributed equally among the ten journalists. […]