Amid violent attacks in Afghanistan that have killed over 20 people in two days in the run-up to presidential elections on Thursday, the government has asked the media not to report on any episodes of violence on election day, “to ensure the wide participation of the Afghan people.” “This request is an affront to free […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) is saddened at the death in prison on Monday of Azeri journalist Novruzali Mammadov. The 68-year-old former editor-in-chief of Tolishi Sado (“Voice of Talysh”) was serving a controversial 10-year jail sentence handed down in 2008 for alleged “espionage.” Mammadov, who died of natural causes, had suffered deteriorating health since his […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) is disappointed at the failure on 13 August of Kazakhstan’s highest court to quash a prison sentence for a newspaper editor. The three-year sentence handed down to Kazakh Ramazan Yesergepov, editor-in-chief of Alma-ata Info, a small-circulation independent weekly newspaper, sparked worldwide condemnation and has cast a dark shadow over the […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) calls for a transparent investigation into the 14 August murder of Aaj TV correspondent Sadiq Bacha Khan, who was gunned down in broad daylight on his way to work in Mardan, a town in the restive North West Frontier Province of Pakistan. Khan was a former president of the Mardan […]