The International Press Institute (IPI) today called on authorities in Afghanistan to apprehend the assailants who gunned down a journalist at his home last weekend. The Afghanistan Journalists Center (AFCJ) reported that Khalid Agha Yaqubi, 27, was killed on Saturday in northern Afghanistan. The AFCJ said Yaqubi was shot by assailants who had been searching […]

The International Press Institute (IPI), a global network of editors, media executives and leading journalists for press freedom, today condemned the brutal climate of repression and censorship against media outlets in Iraq and called on authorities to immediately reverse blanket internet blackouts and forced closures of TV and radio stations. As deadly anti-government protests entered […]

Egypt’s new president should hit the reset button on press freedom by immediately dropping charges against 16 journalists accused of sedition, the International Press Institute (IPI) said today. Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, the military commander who helped engineer last year’s putsch against a democratically elected government, faces only token opposition in this week’s election and seems […]

Egyptian leaders must act immediately to curb police intimidation of media workers and provide a safer working environment for journalists, who have endured months of attacks from street mobs as well as security agents, the International Press Institute (IPI) said in a report released today. Since the military-led ouster of Egypt’s democratically elected president last […]