The International Press Institute (IPI) today condemned Israel’s three-month extension of its administrative detention without trial of Palestinian journalist Omar Nazzal and reiterated its demand that the journalist be allowed to know why he is being held and contest the accusations against him, or be freed immediately. Nazzal, a leading member of the Palestinian Journalists […]

A Palestinian journalist ordered detained for four months without trial in Israel this week should be allowed to know why he is being held and to contest the accusations against him or be freed immediately, the International Press Institute (IPI) said today. Israel’s military issued an administrative detention order on Monday against Omar Nazzal, a […]

When I sit down at the office and turn on my computer I am greeted with an inbox full of press releases highlighting government incursions into newsrooms all around the world. As a press freedom intern helping monitor press freedom developments in the Middle East here at the International Press Institute (IPI), I read press […]

Israel’s government should seriously consider the press freedom implications of some aspects of a recommendation to close the nation’s public broadcaster and transform it into a new agency that would be funded through a combination of state funding and advertising, the International Press Institute said today, expressing concern about the prospect of political influence in […]