Hassan Ruvakuki, a reporter for Radio France Internationale’s (RFI) Swahili-language service and local broadcaster Bonesha FM, was convicted to life in prison by a local court on Wednesday, along with 13 others in the eastern African country of Burundi, on charges of terrorism. According to RFI, Ruvakuki was arrested in November last year after returning […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) expects to return to the Dominican Republic to address the invitation issued last week by the Chamber of Representatives of that country. The meeting with the Representatives was part of the Press Freedom Mission to the Dominican Republic carried out by an IPI delegation headed by IPI Executive Director Alison […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) welcomes the statement done by ministers of the Jamaican government regarding the possibility of repealing criminal defamation this year in the Caribbean country. During a press freedom mission conducted at the beginning of this week, the IPI delegation, headed by its executive director, Alison Bethel McKenzie, met with representatives of […]

The verdict in the trial against Ethiopian journalist Eskinder Nega and other 22 people charged with terrorism, which was expected to be delivered yesterday, has been postponed to June 27. On Thursday, the Ethiopian Federal High Court announced that it was delaying the delivering of the verdict, in order to give the judges time to […]