The IPI global network is deeply alarmed by the arrests of at least 60 Iranian journalists and increasing internet restrictions amid nationwide protests sparked by the death of Mahsa Amini in September. Authorities must immediately release all detained journalists in Iran and must cease blocking access to vital information and communications platforms.  The Iranian government […]

The International Press Institute (IPI), a global network of editors, media executives and leading journalists for press freedom, today condemned Iran for executing journalist Ruhollah Zam and urged the international community to take firm action against the Iranian government. On December 12, journalist Ruhollah Zam was executed by the Iranian authorities for committing  “Corruption on […]

Mashallah Shamsolvaezin is an award-winning Iranian journalist and one of the International Press Institute (IPI)’s four World Press Freedom Heroes from Iran. But after being convicted of “propaganda against the state” – charges that were filed shortly after he spoke out against the jailing of Iranian journalists at IPI’s 2014 World Congress in South Africa […]

Over 500 journalists in Iran have signed a petition calling for the prosecution of Iranian politician Nader Ghazipour after he reportedly struck a parliamentary reporter several times in a corridor of the parliament building in Tehran on Monday. According to reports, Ghazipour, a conservative MP from Urmia, the capital of Iran’s West Azerbaijan Province, hit […]