The International Press Institute (IPI) today repeated its call for Syria to release imprisoned IPI World Press Freedom Hero and Syria Centre for Media and Freedom of Expression (SCM) founder Mazen Darwish. Yara Badr, Darwish’s wife and the current SCM Director Manager, told IPI on Friday that Darwish will be transferred shortly to Damascus for […]

Malaysia should repeal its colonial-era Sedition Act, the International Press Institute (IPI) said today amid a wave of criminal sedition cases against journalists and commentators that observers say are intended to intimidate critical voices into silence. Most recently, a Kuala Lumpur court on Friday charged a well-known political cartoonist with nine separate counts of sedition, defined […]

The Nigerian military has released two Al Jazeera journalists it had confined to a hotel in northeastern Nigeria for over a week, Al Jazeera confirmed in a statement. The network indicated that the two men, Ahmed Idris and Ali Mustapha, had returned to its bureau in Abuja, the Nigerian capital. The pair was reportedly freed […]

Leading Bahraini human rights activist Nabeel Rajab was arrested today at 3 p.m. (GMT +2) at his home, reportedly for tweeting on alleged instances of torture at Bahrain’s Jaw prison. According to Nedal Al Salman, a colleague of Rajab’s at the Bahrain Centre for Human Rights, police surrounded Rajab’s home and escorted him away in […]