The International Press Institute (IPI), a global network of editors, media executives and leading journalists for press freedom, today vehemently condemned the arrest of noted journalist Erick Kabendera in Tanzania and demanded his immediate release. Erick Kabendera, a freelance journalist who has written for several publications around the world, was arrested by plainclothes policemen from […]

The International Press Institute, a global network of editors, media executives and leading journalists for press freedom, has condemned the statement of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro threatening to send noted journalist and co-founder of The Intercept Glenn Greenwald to prison. “President Bolsonaro’s threat to jail Glenn Greenwald is an outrageous and deeply troubling act from […]

In February 2018, Egyptian journalist Moataz Wadnan conducted an interview. A few days later, he was arrested. After more than a year in temporary custody, Wadan remains in solitary confinement in one of Egypt’s most notorious prisons. The arrest Moataz Wadnan was born in Giza on November 20, 1980, and followed his passion for journalism […]

The Executive Board chair of the International Press Institute (IPI), a global network of editors, media executives and journalists, has condemned the trial of Philippine editor Maria Ressa on cyber-libel charges as farcical and part of a targeted campaign to silence her. The chair, Markus Spillmann, said today that the cyber-libel case was not simply […]