Little more than two weeks after the start of the first free elections to take place in Egypt in decades, threats to press freedom, including the censoring of a major new English-language newspaper, have mounted. The second edition of the Egypt Independent – planned for 1 December – never made it to press after objections […]

The Vienna-based South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), an affiliate of the International Press Institute, condemns the physical attack against a Publika TV crew in Calarasi, a town of 16,000 inhabitants in central Moldova, approximately 50 kilometers from the country’s capital, Chisinau. The incident occurred on 7 December 2011, when the TV crew arrived in […]

Three members of the Media Monitoring Project of Zimbabwe (MMPZ) have been arrested, as intimidation of media professionals in Zimbabwe surges. On 5 December, police arrested Fadzai December and Molly Chimhanda, advocacy officers with MMPZ, in Gwanda. They were charged under the Public Order and Security Act with allegedly organising a gathering without notifying police, […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) has endorsed a letter to Jamaican Prime Minister Andrew Holness from the Press Association (PAJ) of Jamaica calling on his Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) to exercise restraint in its criticism of media workers covering the country’s 29 December elections. PAJ President Jenni Campbell sent the letter to Holness in response […]