Six months have passed since a coup d’état in Zimbabwe ended the 37-year rule of Robert Mugabe, who turned the southern African country into one of the most censored environments in the world. Although the seismic shift in the political situation raised hope for a new, more open era for the country’s media, little has […]

In late April 2018, journalists and staff members at Cumhuriyet, Turkey’s oldest newspaper, were forced to watch as 17 of their colleagues were tried and convicted on anti-terror charges at Silivri detention facility. One of those observers was Cumhuriyet journalist Mine Söğüt, who writes for the paper’s political section. The International Press Institute (IPI) met […]