The International Press Institute (IPI) announced on Monday that Tunisian online broadcaster and news website Radio Kalima is the recipient of the IPI Free Media Pioneer Award 2011. The annual award, given out every year at the Vienna-based press freedom organisation’s World Congress, honours media or organisations that have fought to ensure freer and more independent media in […]

IPI/IFEX-TMG – 10 May 2011 – Decades of government-imposed restrictions on freedom of speech and freedom of media through censorship, imprisonments, and pressure on media outlets and journalists have left the Tunisian media landscape in urgent need of reform, with the promotion of freedom of expression as a founding cornerstone, say members of the International […]

One of Tunisia’s best-known bloggers and anti-censorship activists was arrested on Thursday, according to Global Voices Advocacy. Slim Amamou, who contributes to the Global Voices website, was going to work around 1pm when his friends and colleagues lost trace of him. He revealed his position, at the Ministry of Interior, around 6pm, through a geolocation […]

A day after a Tunisian appeals court upheld a four-year prison sentence for a journalist who covered violent protests against unemployment and corruption in the southern mining region of Gafsa, the International Press Institute (IPI) released a report outlining the pressure faced by journalists who cover corruption in Tunisia. The report follows IPI’s participation in […]