Prominent human rights defender Nabeel Rajab, who has been held behind bars in Bahrain for 81 days, should be freed immediately and unconditionally, a coalition of 34 rights groups, including the International Press Institute (IPI), said today in a letter to Bahrain’s king. The groups made the call one day after the 52nd birthday of […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today called on the United Arab Emirates to release a Jordanian journalist who has been detained for eight-and-a-half months, reportedly without charge. Tayseer al-Najjar, who works as culture reporter for the Emirates-based newspaper Dar, was prevented from flying to Jordan in December and then detained on Dec. 13. He was […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) and over 30 free expression groups yesterday called for Russia’s Investigative Committee to take over the investigation into the July 2013 murder of Dagestani editor Ahkmednabi Akhmednabiyev and to end the cycle of impunity for crimes against journalists in the country. The groups made the call to Aleksandr Bastrykin, head […]

The 2006 murder of Russian investigative journalist and International Press Institute (IPI) World Press Freedom Hero Anna Politkovskaya is emblematic of the state of impunity for such crimes in her country, yet she is only one of at least 62 journalists to have lost her life in Russia since 1997, according to IPI’s Death Watch. […]