Members of the International Press Institute (IPI)’s Executive Board today in an open letter to Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi expressed outrage at the lengthy sentences handed out this week to three Al Jazeera journalists behind bars in Egypt as well as sentences pronounced against six other journalists in absentia. Calling the sentences “unjustifiable”, the […]

Hours before a 15-day suspension on Pakistan’s Geo News ended on June 20, the country’s Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) suspended another Geo TV Network channel, Geo Entertainment, for 30 days and fined the company an additional 10 million rupees (approx. €75,000). The regulator also suspended ARY News for 15 days and imposed the same […]

Last February, Trinidad and Tobago was praised by many human rights groups, including the International Press Institute (IPI), for approving legislation to partially decriminalised defamation. However, today press freedom advocates in the country are concerned about a cybercrime bill, currently being discussed in Parliament this week, which in its current language imposes disturbing restrictions on […]

Prominent Iranian journalist and IPI World Press Freedom Hero Mashallah Shamsolvaezin has been requested to appear in front of Iran’s Revolutionary Court within three days, sources told the International Press Institute (IPI) on Sunday. In a separate letter Shamsolvaezin received from the Revolutionary Court, the journalist was also informed that he was banned from travelling […]