The International Press Institute (IPI) today condemned the restrictions imposed on award-winning Egyptian photojournalist Mahmoud Abu Zeid, aka Shawkan, who was released from prison yesterday after spending over five years in jail on unfounded charges. Shawkan’s release is conditional on five years of “police observation”, meaning that he will need to spend 12 hours each […]

mThe International Press Institute (IPI), a global network of editors, media executives and journalists, has again called on Egypt to release award-winning photojournalist Mahmoud Abu Zeid aka Shawkan. The Egyptian government has given no explanation for the latest delay in Shawkan’s release, which should have occurred earlier this month after the initiation of release procedures. In […]

Jaroslaw Kaczyński, the leader of Poland’s ruling Law and Justice party (PiS), has initiated a criminal libel charge against the newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza for publishing reports about his reported involvement in the construction of a 190-meter-tall skyscraper in Warsaw. The Polish state-owned news agency PAP reported that the newspaper would be subject to public prosecution […]

International Press Institute (IPI) Executive Board Vice Chair Beata Balogová, the editor-in-chief of leading Slovak daily newspaper SME, spoke to a crowd of thousands on February 21 in Bratislava at a demonstration calling for justice one year after the murder of journalist Ján Kuciak and his fiancée, Martina Kušnírová. Balogová read a statement signed by […]