Several cutting-edge new speakers have joined a powerful line-up for IPI’s international “Oil, Gas & Media” conference, to be held in Baku, Azerbaijan, from Sep. 17-19. The high-profile gathering will bring together leading energy reporters, business and financial journalists, and major players in the oil and gas industry,  to explore how public opinion, freedom of […]

IPI today welcomed the release, and return to Egypt, of Egyptian journalist Shaimaa Adel, who had been detained in the Sudanese capital Khartoum since July 3, and called for the Sudanese authorities to allow journalists to work freely without fear of detention. The journalist, working for Al Watan newspaper, returned to Egypt aboard the plane […]

The Vienna-based South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), an affiliate of the International Press Institute (IPI), today welcomed a decision by Moldova’s Supreme Court tossing rulings in a defamation lawsuit against a Chisinau-based newspaper. The court on July 11 quashed an Aug. 1, 2011 ruling by the Central Court of Chisinau against investigative weekly Ziarul […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) strongly denounced the long prison sentences handed down to journalist and writer Eskinder Nega in Ethiopia today, as well as the punishments given to five other journalists who were tried in absentia, all of whom were convicted of “terrorism” in late June 2012. “We are saddened that despite international condemnation […]