Livia Klingl is a foreign affairs expert at Austrian daily “Kurier.” She returned from Cairo last night, where she was one of dozens of journalists that have been harassed and attacked in the past two days. Klingl spoke with the International Press Institute (IPI) on Friday 4 February and gave this first hand account of […]

Egyptian authorities this morning released detained correspondent Serge Dumont of Belgium’s Le Soir newspaper and three France24 journalists who were arrested last night, but later took the four back into custody, Le Soir’s chief of information told the International Press Institute (IPI). Jurek Kuczkiewicz said authorities re-arrested Dumont and the three unidentified French correspondents and […]

The head of information for Belgian newspaper Le Soir told the International Press Institute (IPI) today that his country’s ambassador to Cairo spoke by telephone this afternoon with detained correspondent Serge Dumont, who said he had been interrogated by Egyptian authorities. Belgian Ambassador M. Bruno Neve de Mevergnies  reportedly said Dumont indicated he was violently […]

As protests grow in Egypt, with a reported million protestors calling on President Hosni Mubarak to cede power on Tuesday, journalists are reporting that citizens on the ground have found novel ways to circumvent the government-ordered communications crackdown. Egypt has shut down Internet access in the country, and mobile telephone networks have been severely disrupted. […]