Al-Shabab militants in the Somali town of Baidoa yesterday shut down privately-owned Radio Warsan, and took the station’s director and news editor into custody. According to the National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ), al-Shabab forces in Baidoa entered the station’s premises on 30 September 2009 at 4 P.M, and demanded that the FM station stop […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) on Wednesday called on the de facto Honduran government to repeal an emergency decree suspending media freedom and some civil liberties. A day after the decree limiting constitutional rights was issued on Sunday, troops closed down Radio Globo and a television station that backed Honduran President Manuel Zelaya, who was […]

On the day an International Press Institute (IPI) advocacy mission arrived in Russia to discuss the state of media freedom in the country, reports emerged that Russian freelance journalist and human rights activist Alexandr Podrabinek has gone into hiding after angering members of a nationalist pro-Kremlin youth movement with an article he wrote criticising Russia’s […]

Eight years after a sweeping post-9/11 crackdown on the media in Eritrea, none of the 12 journalists and editors imprisoned in that wave of arrests has been released, according to IPI’s ‘Justice Denied’ campaign – which highlights the cases of unjustly imprisoned journalists around the world, and murders of journalists for which no one has […]