Houthi rebels in Yemen should immediately release a veteran journalist sentenced to death for allegedly spying for Saudi Arabia, the International Press Institute (IPI) said today. A court in rebel-held Sana’a sentenced journalist Yahya Al Jubaihi, who has been detained since Sept. 6, on charges of collaborating and spying for an “enemy state”. In what […]

Unabhängige Stimmen sind im Vorfeld der Präsidentschaftswahl vermehrt Drohungen und Angriffen ausgesetzt

Efforts by Slovakia’s prime minister to exercise control over the country’s public broadcaster are “inappropriate and unwise”, the International Press Institute (IPI) said today, urging lawmakers to allow the broadcaster to operate independent of political pressure. In an address to Slovakia’s parliament on Thursday, the National Council, on Thursday, Prime Minister Robert Fico, speaking as […]

Just over one year ago, German satirist Jan Böhmermann performed a reading of a vulgar poem about Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan that would unleash both a debate about the limits of satire and the fury of Turkey’s thin-skinned strongman. Despite German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s decision to grant Erdoğan’s request to allow a case against […]