The International Press Institute (IPI) today renewed its call on Egypt to immediately free Al Jazeera journalist Mahmoud Hussein, who on Wednesday will spend his 100th day in detention. Hussein, an Egyptian national based in Doha, Qatar, was detained by Egyptian authorities on Dec. 20, when he entered the country on holiday to see his […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today called on Egypt to release an Al Jazeera journalist who was detained on Dec. 20 when he entered the country on holiday and urged authorities not to extend his detention for a third time tomorrow. Egypt’s government accuses Mahmoud Hussein, a Doha-based Egyptian national with more than two decades […]

A U.N. body of human rights experts has called for the release of nine journalists that Egypt is holding in connection with the bloody clearing of Cairo’s Rabaa Square in August 2013, saying that their detention is arbitrary and a violation of their human rights. The U.N. Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, in an opinion […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) is concerned at the death of journalist Wael Yunna and reports of attacks on private television stations during deadly clashes on Sunday between protestors speaking out against perceived religious discrimination, and the military who were also supported by a group of protestors. Wael Yunna, a reporter for a Coptic television […]