This week the International Press Institute (IPI), together with Austrian human rights film festival “this human world”, hosted a sold out screening of Jon Stewart’s debut film “Rosewater”, depicting Iran’s brutal imprisonment of acclaimed journalist Maziar Bahari. The screening was followed by a discussion with Bahari, a London-based Iranian-Canadian journalist who spent 118 days behind […]

As the press enters the post-Mandela era, some journalists are uneasy, concerned whether his passing will lead to the government, which over the last few years has curbed the media’s freedoms, adding more restrictions. They wonder whether, though ailing in the last few years of his life, Nelson Mandela was still able to stay the […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today condemned pressure that led South Africa’s City Press newspaper to pull from its website an image of a painting showing President Jacob Zuma as Lenin with his penis exposed. City Press Editor and IPI Executive Board Member Ferial Haffajee wrote yesterday that the newspaper decided to take down the […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) on Sunday condemned in strongest terms the boycott on South Africa’s City Press newspaper called by the country’s ruling African National Congress (ANC) party. The call followed the publication by City Press of a review of a satirical art exhibition, which included a photograph of a painting showing President Jacob Zuma […]