When I sit down at the office and turn on my computer I am greeted with an inbox full of press releases highlighting government incursions into newsrooms all around the world. As a press freedom intern helping monitor press freedom developments in the Middle East here at the International Press Institute (IPI), I read press […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) was saddened today to learn of the death of Radio Be Oko journalist Elisabeth Blanche Olofio in the Central African Republic, who succumbed to injuries she reportedly sustained in January 2013. According to the Community Radio Association (ARC), Seleka rebels attacked and destroyed Olofio’s home on Jan. 4, 2013 in […]

Members of the International Press Institute (IPI)’s Executive Board today in an open letter to Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi expressed outrage at the lengthy sentences handed out this week to three Al Jazeera journalists behind bars in Egypt as well as sentences pronounced against six other journalists in absentia. Calling the sentences “unjustifiable”, the […]

Hours before a 15-day suspension on Pakistan’s Geo News ended on June 20, the country’s Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) suspended another Geo TV Network channel, Geo Entertainment, for 30 days and fined the company an additional 10 million rupees (approx. €75,000). The regulator also suspended ARY News for 15 days and imposed the same […]