Representatives from the International Press Institute (IPI) today began a three-day Press Freedom Mission to Turkey to highlight the continuing trend of deteriorating media freedom in the country. Delegates are scheduled to meet this week in Ankara with State Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Bulent Arinc of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP); Kemal […]

The 234 articles of Egypt’s new draft constitution have been approved by the country’s constituent assembly, and the charter will now be voted on by the public in a referendum. Proponents have hailed the arrival of a constitution they say enshrines the values of the revolution, but when it comes to journalists’ rights, observers fear […]

The report on the public inquiry into the practices of UK newspapers led by Lord Justice Leveson was released yesterday, amid ardent criticism of what some observers interpreted as a door-opener for stricter, statutory regulation of the press. In a speech accompanying his presentation of the report, Leveson noted that “the press, operating freely and […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today welcomed news that journalist and publisher Bedri Adanir, who had been imprisoned in Turkey for nearly three years, has been released. A court in Diyarbakir on Tuesday ordered Adanir, owner of Aram Publishing and a writer for Kurdish daily newspaper Hawar, freed after convicting him of aiding a terrorist […]