Leading oil industry analyst Robert J. Weiner will join a strong line-up of speakers and panellists at the international IPI conference on Oil, Gas & Media in Baku, Azerbaijan, to be held from September 17-19. Weiner will take part in a panel session titled, “Risk and Reward – Who is underwriting today’s increasingly complicated and […]

A well-known Guyanese newspaper columnist and human-rights activist was assaulted late Wednesday night after speaking at a public vigil near the country’s parliament building in Georgetown, the latest incident in what he believes to be a government-sponsored campaign to silence him. Freddie Kissoon, who writes for the independent Kaieteur News, told the International Press Institute […]

IPI joined members of the International Freedom of Expression Exchange (IFEX) and other human rights groups in condemning the three year prison term handed down to human rights defender Nabeel Rajab on Thursday, and calling for the release of all activists jailed for exercising their right to free expression. Nabeel heads the Bahrain Centre for […]

The International Press Institute (IPI), and the IPI Austrian National Committee, today expressed concern over the treatment of an Austrian Press Association (APA) photographer by far-right politicians in the Austrian state of Carinthia. On Thursday, as reported by Austria’s public broadcaster (ORF) and other Austrian news outlets, controversy broke out in the Carinthia state parliament […]