The International Press Institute (IPI) today urged Egyptian judges to dismiss terrorism-related charges against 20 Al Jazeera journalists and to immediately release those who remain in detention. Three weeks after their indictment by Egyptian prosecutors, the news photographers and correspondents are due to appear in a Cairo criminal court tomorrow on charges that include reporting […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) and other leading international press freedom groups today urged British Prime Minister David Cameron to take immediate steps to safeguard press freedom and to ensure that his government’s actions are not used to justify media restrictions elsewhere in the world. IPI and other members of the Global Coordinating Committee of […]

Journalism in Egypt has always been dubbed “the business of looking for trouble”. Lately, the trouble factor has exponentially increased with a consistent crackdown on journalists, with the blessing of the current cabinet headed by Dr. Hazem El-Beblawi. Egypt has almost always presented reporters with a hostile environment, with state authorities targeting them since the […]

Costa Rica may suffer a blow to its image as one of Latin America’s beacons of democracy after a government agency was accused of spying on one of the country’s most popular daily newspapers. Diario Extra reported that the Investigative Police Body in Costa Rica, or the OIJ, had been monitoring and recording the telephone […]