The International Press Institute (IPI) said today that it was increasingly concerned for the well-being of imprisoned Egyptian freelance photojournalist Mahmoud Abou Zeid and called on Egypt to release him without delay. Abou Zeid, also known as “Shawkan”, has been held without official charges since Aug. 14, 2013, when he was arrested while covering a […]

In a bombshell video leaked yesterday to the Malaysian press, a former Malaysian deputy prime minister appeared to suggest that Prime Minister Najib Razak had admitted to embezzling over 600 million euros in national development funds, an allegation first published last week by the whistleblowing website Sarawak Report. Malaysia’s government blocked the Sarawak Report on […]

En este artículo, Stephen Whittle, miembro independiente de la misión y ex Director de Política Editorial en la BBC y experto en medios de comunicación para el Consejo de Europa, aborda la situación de la corporación radiotelevisiva pública española y de la regulación de la comunicación audiovisual en España.

In this piece, Stephen Whittle, an independent member of the mission and the former Controller of Editorial Policy at the BBC as well as a media expert for the Council of Europe*, addresses the situation related to public broadcasting and broadcast regulation in Spain.