The International Press Institute (IPI), a global network of editors, media executives and leading journalists for press freedom, today vehemently condemned the sentencing of Zhang Zhan, a citizen journalist who reported from Wuhan about COVID-19. A court in Shanghai today convicted Zhang for ‘picking quarrels and provoking trouble’, a charge often levelled by the Chinese […]

The International Press Institute (IPI), a global network of editors, media executives and leading journalists for press freedom, today strongly condemned the arrest of Jordanian journalist Jamal Haddad and demanded his immediate release. Haddad, editor of the news website Al-Wakaai, was arrested on December 24, on the orders of the state security court prosecutor, for […]

Estonia, one of Europe’s smallest nations, has been well known as a trailblazer globally when it comes to digital government. Its media organizations are leaders, too, running ahead of the other two Baltic countries of Latvia and Lithuania when it comes to people committing to paying for online content. Since September 2019, when the Estonian […]

His Excellency Mr. Abdel Fattah al-Sisi President Arab Republic of Egypt 22 December 2020 Urgent appeal to release journalist Mahmoud Hussein Your excellency, On behalf the members of International Press Institute (IPI), a Vienna-based global network of editors, media executives and leading journalists for press freedom, I would like to express IPI’s deep concern about […]