The International Press Institute (IPI), a global network of editors, media executives and leading journalists for press freedom, today called on the government of Senegal to drop charges against journalist Adama Gaye, who has been detained over a month on colonial-era charges of insulting the country’s president. A well-known critical of the current Senegalese government, […]

The International Press Institute (IPI), a global network of editors, media executives and leading journalists for press freedom, has urged U.S. Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation Zalmay Khalilzad to make the safety of journalists a priority in his ongoing U.S.-Taliban talks. In a letter to the U.S. special representative, IPI said that media organizations in […]

The International Press Institute (IPI), a global network of editors, media executives and journalists, today urged the Japanese prime minister, Shinzo Abe, and the U.N. secretary general, António Guterres, to raise the issue of jailed journalists with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi. Al-Sisi, who is also the current chairperson of the African Union, is in […]

The International Press Institute (IPI), a global network of editors, media executives and journalists for press freedom, today called on the government of Turkey to immediately release nine journalists who were arrested in a country-wide crackdown this week. On Tuesday, August 20, police arrested six journalists who were covering protests against the dismissal of municipal […]