The International Press Institute (IPI) today expressed concern over developments at the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC), which this week fired eight journalists who had voiced disagreement with its ban on covering violent protests, a stance the broadcaster has now reversed. After vowing a challenge, the public broadcaster said yesterday that it would obey the Independent […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today strongly condemned the killing of a prominent journalist in a car bombing in downtown Kiev this morning in what Ukrainian authorities have preliminarily called a “premeditated murder”. Pavel Sheremet, a Belarus-born journalist who had been working in Ukraine for the past five years at news site Ukrainska Pravda and […]

Delegates from the International Press Institute (IPI) and the African Media Initiative (AMI) call on Zambian authorities to allow opposition daily The Post to reopen immediately, noting that the apparent politically motivated attempt to silence it ahead of elections is part of a chain of events raising deep concerns over the state of democracy in […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today welcomed a Kazakh court decision suspending the 18-month prison sentence of journalist Guzyal Baidalinova on libel-related charges. The Almaty Court of Appeals suspended Baidalinova’s sentence on July 12, but ordered her not to leave Kazakhstan’s largest city, according to reports. She had been detained since her arrest in December […]