The International Press Institute (IPI) today joined a coalition of international press freedom organisations in calling on Burundi’s president to take steps to improve media freedom ahead of upcoming parliamentary and presidential elections. The leaders of 15 groups in an open letter urged President Pierre Nkurunziza, who is seeking a third term in office in […]

A group of international press freedom organisations on Friday completed a three-day high-level mission to Spain, where a controversial new law on public security is set to take effect on July 1. In a series of meetings in Madrid, the group, led by the International Press Institute (IPI) and including representatives from the Committee to […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today urged German authorities to release Al Jazeera journalist Ahmed Mansour, a well-known Egyptian television presenter, who was arrested yesterday at Berlin’s Tegel airport as he was about to board a flight to Qatar. “IPI condemns Mr. Mansour’s arrest in the strongest possible terms,” IPI Executive Director Barbara Trionfi said. […]

Pilar Velasco is an investigative journalist at Cadena SER and a Yale World Fellow ‘18 Zur deutschen Version In Spain, amid the COVID-19 pandemic, national and regional governments are restricting press access to hospitals, elderly residences, and official institutions – including the regional parliament in Madrid. Journalists have denounced the attempt at message and image […]