The International Press Institute (IPI) today called on Egyptian authorities to heed criticism levelled against the country’s human rights record yesterday during a U.N. review. “Egypt’s government needs to ensure that the promises of free expression enshrined in the new Constitution approved early this year are actually implemented,” IPI Senior Press Freedom Adviser Steven M. […]

Israeli airstrikes on Gaza in the past week have left a dire situation for residents and for journalists seeking to cover the conflict. As tension mounts, the Egyptian government continues to keep the Rafah border, one of only two crossings that service the Gaza strip, shut. This makes it extraordinarily difficult for journalists to enter […]

Members of the International Press Institute (IPI)’s Executive Board today in an open letter to Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi expressed outrage at the lengthy sentences handed out this week to three Al Jazeera journalists behind bars in Egypt as well as sentences pronounced against six other journalists in absentia. Calling the sentences “unjustifiable”, the […]

Egyptian authorities have sentenced three Al Jazeera reporters to lengthy prison terms based on ungrounded and extraordinary claims, the International Press Institute (IPI) said today. Peter Greste, Mohamed Fahmy, and Baher Mohamed, reporters for Al Jazeera English, were sentenced today on charges  they were conspiring with the Muslim Brotherhood to broadcast false reports of civil […]