As Iran’s trial of Washington Post correspondent Jason Rezaian on espionage charges resumed this week behind closed doors in Tehran, the International Press Institute (IPI) condemned the journalist’s ongoing imprisonment and the lack of transparency in the case, and called for his immediate release. The Iranian-American journalist is being held on charges of spying and […]

As part of the Norwegian Press House’s Nobel Week programme, IPI’s Norwegian National Committee invited IPI Executive Director Barbara Trionfi and Nadezhda Azhgikhina, the director of PEN Moscow and an IPI member, to join a conversation with Barents Press chairman Amund Trellevik on promoting press freedom worldwide. “It was one of the happiest days of […]

This week marks the 20th anniversary of the start of the Rwanda genocide, which killed nearly one-in-seven people in the small African nation. Today, there is continuing debate about the role of the news media in the calamity – from the role local broadcasters and newspapers played in fuelling ethnic hatred, to concerns that the […]

This week marks the 20th anniversary of the start of the Rwanda genocide, which killed nearly one-in-seven people in the small African nation. Today, there is continuing debate about the role of the news media in the calamity – from the role local broadcasters and newspapers played in fuelling ethnic hatred, to concerns that the […]