The International Press Institute (IPI) on Monday expressed concern at a crackdown on journalists in Bahrain over the past weekend as they sought to cover protests that accompanied a controversial Formula 1 racing event.  A number of journalists were denied entry into Bahrain, and those who were allowed in were prevented from reporting on demonstrations. […]

Eight members of the Syrian Centre for Media and Freedom of Expression (SCM), arrested in February, began trial under the military penal code in Damascus this weekend, according to exiled SCM activist Massoud Akko. The condition of the remaining five members remains unknown. IPI Acting Deputy Director Anthony Mills said: “We call on the authorities […]

The Vienna-based South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), an affiliate of the International Press Institute (IPI), is dismayed at recent changes in the Kosovo Penal Code, approved on April 20 in the Kosovo parliament. According to the controversial articles 37 and 38, journalists will be held criminally liable if they do not reveal their sources. […]

Twenty international journalists who have been recognised as World Press Freedom Heroes by the Vienna-based International Press Institute (IPI) have condemned the Ethiopian government’s decision to jail Eskinder Nega and other journalists on terrorism charges, and called for their immediate release. Eskinder Nega, an online writer and critic of the current Ethiopian government, was arrested […]