The IPI global network today urged Botswana to withdraw a proposed law that would allow for warrantless surveillance of communications. The bill has been sharply criticized by media representatives in Botswana and Africa. Botswana’s government is currently pushing the Criminal Procedure and Evidence Bill through parliament. If passed, the bill will have a chilling effect […]

The International Press Institute and 26 undersigned human rights and journalists’ organizations call for the immediate release of journalist Sedef Kabaş following her late-night arrest on January 22 and for an end to the judicial harassment of independent media. On January 22, Kabaş was detained during a midnight police raid in Istanbul following critical comments […]

Ali Farsab was shot at and beaten by Sudanese security forces on November 19 while covering protests in Sudan following the October military coup. Even with a slow physical recovery, he is ready to continue reporting on increasingly violent, and fatal, protests and won’t let his own trauma stop him. “The incident that I faced […]

In a guest article for IPI, the Spanish free expression organization Plataforma por la Libertad de Información (Platform for Freedom of Information, PLI) summarizes key trends in press freedom in Spain in 2021. At the top of the list: the country’s ‘gag law’ continues to be applied against journalists, even as lawmakers mull a partial […]