Global press freedom is entering uncharted waters. As governments around the world scramble to stop the spread of the COVID-19 and protect the health of their citizens, states of emergency are being announced and extensive restrictions put in place. Wide-ranging limits on freedoms are being implemented on a scale not seen in peacetime. In a […]

Mozambique should free radio journalist Ibraimo Abú Mbaruco from arbitrary detention and take action against those responsible for his arrest, the International Press Institute (IPI) said today. According to information received by IPI, Mbaruco, a journalist with Palma Community Radio, was detained by military officers on April 7 in Mozambique’s restless northeastern Cabo Delgado province. […]

The International Press Institute (IPI), a global network of editors, media executives and leading journalists for press freedom, has urged the U.N. Special Envoy for Yemen to intervene in the case of four journalists sentenced to death by Houthi rebels last week. IPI this week condemned the sentencing of four journalists to death by a […]

The International Press Institute (IPI), a global network of editors, media executives and leading journalists for press freedom, today called on Swiss authorities to issue a statement apologizing for the unjustified detention last week of a freelance photojournalist by police officers at Zurich Airport. In a letter to the Minister of Security Affairs of the […]