Andrzej Poczobut, Poland’s Gazeta Wyborcza correspondent in Belarus, and Polish minority activist there, was arrested on Thursday in the town of Grodno, Belarus. At 4 pm police searched Andrzej’s apartment and took the journalist to prosecutor’s office. Andrzej was interrogated and arrested, Igor Bancer, his colleague from the Polish Union in Belarus, the organization banned […]

In personal letters to the three Mexican presidential candidates, the International Press Institute (IPI), the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA), and the World Editors Forum have called on the candidates to explain the measures they would take to end violence against journalists and to bring their attackers to justice. “We are seriously […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today welcomed the release of another journalist from prison in Turkey and urged the country to free the rest of the nearly 100 journalists it currently holds behind bars, the vast majority of whom have been convicted of no crime. A court in Istanbul late yesterday afternoon ordered the release […]

A new law in Ethiopia, ratified on May 24, 2012, will criminalise the use of voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) communications, such as Skype, Viber and GTalk. “IPI is gravely concerned at this development, which appears to be yet another move by the government of Prime Minister Meles Zenawi to control the free flow of […]