The three-year sentence handed today to three Al Jazeera journalists by an Egyptian court is “outrageous and disgraceful”, the International Press Institute (IPI) said. Former Al Jazeera English Cairo Bureau Chief Mohamed Fahmy, Al Jazeera journalist Peter Greste and Al Jazeera producer Baher Mohamed were convicted of practicing journalism without government permission and for spreading […]

Egypt should repeal new anti-terrorism legislation punishing journalists whose coverage of militant attacks does not toe the government line, the International Press Institute (IPI) said today as it released a broad list of recommendations intended to reverse the continuing deterioration of press freedom in the country. The recommendations, aimed both at Egypt’s government and at […]

In a joint global effort, the International Press Institute (IPI), the Syrian Centre for Media and Freedom of Expression (SCM) and fifteen other international organisations today called on Syrian authorities to drop all charges against recently released Syrian journalist and IPI World Press Freedom Hero Mazen Darwish and two colleagues, Hani Al-Zitani and Hussein Gharir. […]

Lesen Sie diesen Artikel auf Deutsch The German National Committee of the International Press Institute (IPI) said today that press freedom in Germany had been strengthened by events in connection with the investigation of two journalists from the website netzpolitik.org on suspicion of treason. Following vigorous protests against the launching of the investigation, the public […]