Bassem Sabry, an Egyptian journalist and commentator who was among those accepting the International Press Institute’s Free Media Pioneer Award at the recent IPI World Congress in South Africa, died yesterday in an apparent accident in Cairo. He was 31. Sabry was widely respected for the reports and commentaries he filed from Cairo on the […]

Ethiopian authorities have arrested nine journalists and bloggers on allegations that they worked for foreign human rights groups or used social media to incite violence, sources told the International Press Institute (IPI) today, saying they feared additional detentions. IPI condemned the arrests, which targeted some individuals who met with the organisation’s representatives during a press […]

If Kuwaiti authorities thought they could hush news coverage of a reported plot to overthrow the emir, Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Jabir al-Sabah, their efforts to control independent media appear to have backfired. It all began when the tiny Gulf state’s chief prosecutor, Dherar Al-Asousi, on April 10 barred journalists from covering an investigation into a […]

The recent attack and gang-rape of an Indian journalist who was on assignment in the northern state of Uttar Pardesh underscores the dangers faced by female reporters, an editor of The Hindu told IPI in an interview. The 30-year-old employee of a Haridwar-based Hindu newspaper was reportedly seized on March 27 by three men driving […]