Turkish journalist Zeynep Oral, the first recipient of the International Press Institute (IPI)’s “Press Freedom Dialogue Award”, is the co-founder, together with Margarita Papandreou of Greece, of the Women’s Initiative for Peace, or WINPEACE. Founded in January 1996, following the December 1995 Imia Island Crisis which brought Greece and Turkey to the brink of a […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today condemned the killing of an Indian journalist in Mumbai on 11 June. Jyotirmoy Dey was killed on the spot after being shot at several times by four men in a carefully planned operation in broad daylight, IPI’s India National Committee reported. Dey was the special investigations editor at the […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) condemns the arrest of Ugandan journalist Timothy Kalyegira. He was detained on 31 May and charged with criminal libel after accusing Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni of being responsible for the bombings in the capital Kampala in July 2010, Reuters reported. The two blasts – which hit a restaurant and a […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today urged Sudanese authorities to drop criminal charges against at least five journalists who have published articles regarding the alleged rape and torture of a female youth activist while in the custody of security services. Journalist Omar el Garrai and the editor of Ajras Al-Hurria newspaper Abdallah Sheikh were in […]