Egyptian authorities should not allow a widely criticised trial against three Al Jazeera journalists to do any more harm and should drop all charges immediately, the International Press Institute (IPI) said today. Peter Greste, an Australian who works for Al Jazeera English, and his colleagues Mohamed Fahmy and Baher Mohamed are due to appear in […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today strongly condemned the continued detention of journalist Abdullah Elshamy by Egyptian authorities and called for the immediate release of all journalists being held in prison because of their work. According to media reports, Elshamy, a journalist for Al Jazeera’s Arabic channel who has been detained since Aug. 14 without […]

Bassem Sabry, an Egyptian journalist and commentator who was among those accepting the International Press Institute’s Free Media Pioneer Award at the recent IPI World Congress in South Africa, died yesterday in an apparent accident in Cairo. He was 31. Sabry was widely respected for the reports and commentaries he filed from Cairo on the […]

Lea esta noticia en español. Earlier this month, five journalists in Nicaragua were assaulted while covering the funeral of one of the country’s most prominent poets and liberation theologians, Ernesto Cardenal.  The attack on March 3 was carried out by supporters of country’s political leader Daniel Ortega and saw two of the journalists taken to […]