The International Press Institute (IPI) today called on Egyptian authorities to heed criticism levelled against the country’s human rights record yesterday during a U.N. review. “Egypt’s government needs to ensure that the promises of free expression enshrined in the new Constitution approved early this year are actually implemented,” IPI Senior Press Freedom Adviser Steven M. […]

An Ethiopian court this week delayed proceedings for an 11th time against six bloggers and three independent journalists, who were arrested in April in connection with their activities as part of the Zone 9 collective. The court at a hearing on Tuesday adjourned the case until Nov. 12, 2014. The nine defendants, who were arrested […]

Lawyers for an Icelandic Interior Ministry official are requesting prison time for two journalists who erroneously identified the official as a target in a police investigation into a government leak. In June, journalists Jón Bjarki Magnússon and Jóhann Páll Jóhannsson incorrectly identified Þórey Vilhjálmsdóttir, a political assistant to Iceland’s interior minister, as “employee B”, who the […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today expressed deep concern over a recorded phone call in which a person identified as the attorney general of Guyana appeared to suggest that staff members of the daily Kaieteur News risked deadly reprisal if the paper continued its critical reporting. On Oct. 28, Kaieteur News published the recording and […]