Underscoring the challenges facing journalists in Egypt, International Press Institute (IPI) Executive Director Alison Bethel McKenzie today urged Cairo to live up to its international commitments to press freedom. McKenzie, speaking in Geneva on a panel discussing the crackdown on news media during the recent turmoil in Egypt, pressed the military-backed government to free jailed […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today called on the Egyptian government to reverse its move to silence four news channels in Egypt. Al Jazeera and other news agencies reported yesterday that an administrative court ordered Al Jazeera Mubasher Misr and three other TV stations – Ahrar 25, Al Yarmuk and Al Quds – to cease […]

Egyptian authorities should immediately release three Al Jazeera journalists who were jailed during last month’s nationwide crackdown on demonstrators, the International Press Institute (IPI) said today. Security forces in the past month have rounded up numerous journalists, including photographers and correspondents for international media, in the aftermath of a crackdown on demonstrators loyal to the […]

Egyptian security forces should immediately release the Cairo bureau chief of Turkey’s İhlas news agency and a Turkish television correspondent who was arrested last weekend, the International Press Institute and its Turkish National Committee said today. Tahir Osman Hamde, 40, was seized by the Egyptian authorities on August 20 and security forces raided his office […]