Press freedom advocates this week cautiously greeted promises that press freedom in Sri Lanka will improve after former health minister and opposition coalition candidate Maithripala Sirisena unexpectedly unseated President Mahinda Rajapaksa in an election last Thursday, but some observers remained wary. Sirisena’s victory marks the first time an incumbent has been beaten out by an […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) expressed concern today about missing Mexican journalist Moisés Sánchez Cerezo, who disappeared last week in Medellín de Bravo, Veracruz. Sánchez, who reported on corruption among local officials and drug-related violence in the area, has been missing since the evening of Jan. 2, when his family reported that nine armed men […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) joined observers around the world in condemning the brutal attack today on the Paris offices of satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo in which 12 people were killed. UPDATE: This statement was revised on Jan. 8, 2015 to add further information on the victims and on the alleged attackers. “IPI is appalled […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) said today that it was troubled to learn that Palestinian Associated Press (AP) correspondent Mohammed Daraghmeh had been denied entry into Jordan. Daraghmeh was denied entry into Jordan while travelling from the West Bank for work on Dec. 3. He currently remains in the central West Bank city of Ramallah, […]