On 5 March, as online journalist Eskinder Nega was scheduled to return to court in a trial in which he faces terrorism charges, the International Press Institute (IPI) sent an open letter to United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, asking him to speak out against the use of anti-terrorism legislation against media members in Ethiopia. […]

The Vienna-based South East Europe media Organisation (SEEMO), an affiliate of the International Press Institute (IPI), welcomes amendments to the defamation law in Albania. Two sets of reforms, both to the civil and penal code, were voted in on Feb. 17 and Mar. 1, 2012. The penal code amendments included the full repeal of four […]

Journalists around the world today joined the International Press Institute (IPI) in condemning Turkey’s continued imprisonment of investigative journalist and IPI World Press Freedom Hero Nedim Şener, one year after he was detained in connection with an alleged coup plot. IPI Executive Director Alison Bethel McKenzie said: “The fact that Nedim Şener has been taken […]

Reporters Edith Bouvier and William Daniels have escaped the besieged Syrian city of Homs and are currently in Lebanon, according to AP. During a European summit in Brussels, French President Nicolas Sarkozy confirmed that he had spoken to Bouvier and that she and Daniels had been smuggled into Lebanon. He added that Bouvier would be […]