Nearly 90 percent of registered voters in Antigua and Barbuda went to the polls last week to elect a new government, and just about 58 percent of those voted for the opposition Antigua Labour Party (ALP). Its leader, Gaston Browne, was sworn in last Friday as the country’s new prime minister. In April 2013, the […]

Egyptian authorities should not allow a widely criticised trial against three Al Jazeera journalists to do any more harm and should drop all charges immediately, the International Press Institute (IPI) said today. Peter Greste, an Australian who works for Al Jazeera English, and his colleagues Mohamed Fahmy and Baher Mohamed are due to appear in […]

The International Press Institute (IPI)’s Nigerian National Committee has published a statement in response to a recent series of seizures by the Nigerian military of multiple editions of newspapers, including Leadership, The Nation and Punch, at locations across the country. In some cases, this has involved the interception of delivery vans and the storming of […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today strongly condemned the continued detention of journalist Abdullah Elshamy by Egyptian authorities and called for the immediate release of all journalists being held in prison because of their work. According to media reports, Elshamy, a journalist for Al Jazeera’s Arabic channel who has been detained since Aug. 14 without […]