Egyptian security forces and the Muslim Brotherhood opposition have targeted foreign journalists with harassment and detention since the military-backed government moved to crush protests, media workers have told the International Press Institute. One Egyptian journalist described a “vigilante” environment in the country where loyalists on both sides of the political divide were targeting news workers, […]

Underscoring the challenges facing journalists in Egypt, International Press Institute (IPI) Executive Director Alison Bethel McKenzie today called on U.S. leaders to pressure the Egyptian government to live up to its international commitments to press freedom. Egypt must release all detained reporters and editors, and lift its ban on broadcasts of national and international media, […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today urged Haitian authorities to conduct a swift and comprehensive investigation into the killing of Georges Henry Honorat on Saturday, Mar. 23. According to reports, Honorat, was editor-in-chief for the weekly newspaper Haïti Progrès, as well as an aide to Haiti’s prime minister, Laurent Lamothe, and secretary general of the […]

A respected Peruvian photojournalist was gunned down on Saturday afternoon as he left at his home in Lima’s Pueblo Libre district. Peruvian media reported that Luis Choy, 34, a photographer who covered a wide variety of subjects for the newspaper El Comercio, was intercepted at approximately 3:40 pm by at least one gunman and shot […]