South Africa’s controversial Protection of Information Bill – which IPI and other press freedom groups had warned would gravely undermine free media – will be redrafted, South African MPs said on Friday, according to local news reports. A parliamentary ad hoc committee tasked with overseeing processing of the bill has agreed to refer to proposals […]

A Yemeni terrorism court accused freelance journalist and Al-Qaeda analyst Abdul Elah Shaia on Tuesday of working with Al-Qaeda, according to news reports. Shaia, who is on trial along with his assistant Abdul Karim Daoud al-Shami, has been accused of “belonging to an illegal network” and “supporting the al-Qaeda network” from 2008 to 2010, AFP […]

A representative of the International Press Institute – Sverre Tom Radøy, a senior journalist with the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK) who has significant reporting experience in Sri Lanka – attended the trial against Sri Lankan newspaper The Sunday Leader on 19 October 2010 in an effort to provide an international presence and to monitor the […]

Lebanese journalist and former television anchor for the Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation (LBC) May Chidiac, one of 60 “IPI World Press Freedom Heroes” honoured by the International Press Institute, spoke to Laura Pannasch at the IPI World Congress 2010 in Vienna. Even an assassination attempt in September 2005, in which she lost part of her left leg and left […]