Over 500 journalists in Iran have signed a petition calling for the prosecution of Iranian politician Nader Ghazipour after he reportedly struck a parliamentary reporter several times in a corridor of the parliament building in Tehran on Monday. According to reports, Ghazipour, a conservative MP from Urmia, the capital of Iran’s West Azerbaijan Province, hit […]

A defamation case over a Facebook post that could force a freelance journalist in Bhutan to pay the equivalent of 10 years’ salary or go to prison – and its potential implications for regulation of social media – raise serious concerns, the International Press Institute (IPI) said today. Journalist Namgay Zam is on trial for […]

Prominent human rights defender Nabeel Rajab, who has been held behind bars in Bahrain for 81 days, should be freed immediately and unconditionally, a coalition of 34 rights groups, including the International Press Institute (IPI), said today in a letter to Bahrain’s king. The groups made the call one day after the 52nd birthday of […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today called on the United Arab Emirates to release a Jordanian journalist who has been detained for eight-and-a-half months, reportedly without charge. Tayseer al-Najjar, who works as culture reporter for the Emirates-based newspaper Dar, was prevented from flying to Jordan in December and then detained on Dec. 13. He was […]