The Gambian authorities have closed Teranga FM for the second time after warning the radio station to stop a program that translated reports from local newspapers into local languages. The International Press Institute (IPI) expressed its dismay at the news, and called on the authorities to recognise citizens’ right under the Universal Declaration of Human […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) and members of the Institute’s Nigerian National Committee today condemned a string of recent attacks against the press and called on the Nigerian police and the state prosecutor to fulfil their duties by punishing those responsible. The apparently targeted killings of two journalists this year underscore the urgency with which […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) strongly condemns the reported killing of two Syrian journalists in Damascus on Saturday, Aug. 11, 2012. According to various news reports, the Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) announced on Sunday that one of its reporters, Ali Abbas, was killed by members of an ‘armed terrorist group’ at his home residence […]

Syria’s Air Force Intelligence has decided to try Syrian human rights lawyer Mazen Darwish, head of the Damascus-based Syrian Centre for Media and Freedom of Expression (SCM), behind closed doors before a Military Field Court, Reuters reported yesterday. The news agency said that the Geneva-based International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) expressed concern that Darwish might […]