The International Press Institute (IPI) and 21 other media and human rights organisations urged the king of Jordan to reconsider restrictions placed on Internet news sites, nearly five months after regulators blocked some 300 sites under a new licensing provision of the Press and Publications Law. In the letter to King Abdullah II, the organisations […]

The International Press Institute (IPI)’s Nepal National Committee today denounced a ban imposed on the screening of three Sri Lankan films at Film Southasia (FSA) 2013, a festival of South Asian documentaries currently taking place in Kathmandu. Nepal’s Ministry of Information and Communication reportedly ordered the organisers of FSA 2013 to remove from the schedule […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today expressed growing concern about press freedom in Tanzania following a government order suspending two newspapers in the country. The Ministry of Information’s decision to bar the publication of the Mwananchi, part of the Nation Group in Nairobi, and the Mtanzania, owned by New Habari Ltd., was based on complaints […]

The International Press Institute (IPI)’s Nepal National Committee today urged Nepal’s government to refrain from applying the Electronic Transaction Act, 2008 in breach of fundamental press freedom principles, which the committee said would create an environment adverse to freedom of expression. Police arrested Nepali journalist Dinesh Acharya, editor of the Share Bazar weekly, on Sept. […]