The International Press Institute (IPI) joined PEN South Africa in calling on Angola’s government to release and quash the convictions of 17 academics, students, artists and journalists accused of plotting a coup because they met to read and discuss a book on non-violent resistance to repressive regimes. The defendants, part of the Luanda Book Club, […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) has joined 14 other non-governmental organisations in a statement supporting a recent European Parliament resolution that criticised the human rights situation in Angola. The resolution, adopted on Sept. 10, highlighted in particular the “increasing shrinking space for freedoms of expression”. In May IPI condemned the suspended six-month prison sentence handed […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today condemned the suspended six-month prison sentence given to Angolan journalist Rafael Marques de Morais over his book outlining human rights abuses connected with the country’s diamond mining industry, saying the outcome represented “a cynical abuse of law”. A judge in Luanda yesterday issued the sentenced after finding Marques guilty […]

Freedom of the press came under threat in 2013 in ways – and in some countries – that would have seemed inconceivable when the year began. As the International Press Institute (IPI) today launches its “World Press Freedom Review”, highlighting press freedom violations over the past two years, one sobering development in 2013 was the […]