The International Press Institute is encouraged by a series of positive meetings with government officials, diplomats and journalists that point toward the nation moving forward on negotiations for a self-regulatory, non-statutory media body. IPI Acting Director, Alison Bethel McKenzie, is in Lusaka to conduct a training session for senior journalists on media self regulation as […]

Turkish police have raided the offices and homes of four journalists associated with dissident news website OdaTV amid accusations that they were part of a plot to overthrow the government, the International Press Institute (IPI) has learned from its Turkish National Committee. Police in Istanbul seized documents as well as computers in the raid on […]

IPI on Tuesday said that heavy prison sentences recently handed down to two Rwandan journalists demonstrated the need for legal reforms in Rwanda. A Rwandan court on 4 February sentenced one journalist to 17 years in prison for defaming senior officials, and another to seven years, for inciting unrest. IPI is concerned that, in the […]

The Vienna-based South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), an affiliate of the International Press Institute (IPI), strongly condemns Thursday’s bomb attack on the weekly Galeria in Sofia, Bulgaria. A bomb exploded around 5:40 a.m. in front of the headquarters shared by the weekly publication and the Millennium publishing house in the central part of Sofia. […]