A group of international press freedom organisations on Friday completed a three-day high-level mission to Spain, where a controversial new law on public security is set to take effect on July 1. In a series of meetings in Madrid, the group, led by the International Press Institute (IPI) and including representatives from the Committee to […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today urged German authorities to release Al Jazeera journalist Ahmed Mansour, a well-known Egyptian television presenter, who was arrested yesterday at Berlin’s Tegel airport as he was about to board a flight to Qatar. “IPI condemns Mr. Mansour’s arrest in the strongest possible terms,” IPI Executive Director Barbara Trionfi said. […]

Pilar Velasco is an investigative journalist at Cadena SER and a Yale World Fellow ‘18 Zur deutschen Version In Spain, amid the COVID-19 pandemic, national and regional governments are restricting press access to hospitals, elderly residences, and official institutions – including the regional parliament in Madrid. Journalists have denounced the attempt at message and image […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today called on Bangladeshi authorities to conduct a thorough investigation into a banned Islamist group’s death threat against 24 people, including five journalists, and to take steps to ensure the safety of those threatened. The group, Ansarullah Bangla Team, made the threat in a letter issued yesterday that specifically targeted […]