The European Commission’s support for projects addressing violations of media freedom and pluralism, and providing practical support to journalists, gives European Union countries reason to celebrate this year on May 3, World Press Freedom Day, media freedom watchdogs said today. However, new research into defamation law and practice – one of four, one-year projects launched […]

Bassem Sabry, an Egyptian journalist and commentator who was among those accepting the International Press Institute’s Free Media Pioneer Award at the recent IPI World Congress in South Africa, died yesterday in an apparent accident in Cairo. He was 31. Sabry was widely respected for the reports and commentaries he filed from Cairo on the […]

Ethiopian authorities have arrested nine journalists and bloggers on allegations that they worked for foreign human rights groups or used social media to incite violence, sources told the International Press Institute (IPI) today, saying they feared additional detentions. IPI condemned the arrests, which targeted some individuals who met with the organisation’s representatives during a press […]

If Kuwaiti authorities thought they could hush news coverage of a reported plot to overthrow the emir, Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Jabir al-Sabah, their efforts to control independent media appear to have backfired. It all began when the tiny Gulf state’s chief prosecutor, Dherar Al-Asousi, on April 10 barred journalists from covering an investigation into a […]