Malaysian authorities should drop charges against a journalist who aired allegations of corruption involving the country’s prime minister, the International Press Institute (IPI) said today following news that an arrest warrant has been issued for Sarawak Report founder Clare Rewcastle Brown. The head of Malaysia’s Criminal Investigation Department, Datuk Seri Mohmad Salleh, said in a […]

A group of leading press freedom, media development and human rights organisations has called on the government of Burundi to investigate all attacks against journalists and human rights defenders working in the country. The full statement follows below. The undersigned press freedom, media development and human rights organizations denounce the continued attacks on and threats […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today condemned the killing of a Mexican photojournalist who appeared to have been tortured before being shot in the head in Mexico City. Ruben Espinosa, a photojournalist from the Gulf Coast state Veracruz, was found late on Friday with severe injuries to his face. The journalist fled Xalapa, capital of […]

This November, Myanmar will hold its first democratic general election since the end of nearly 50 years of military rule, but events of this past month raise questions about whether the press will be free enough to cover it fairly and informatively. At IPI’s 2015 World Congress in Yangon in March, Information Minister Ye Htut […]