Press freedom continues to deteriorate in Yemen with the sentencing of Yemeni journalist Anis Mansour to 14 months in prison for “separatism and attacking national unity,” according to the Yemen Times newspaper on Sunday, and the opening of a Press and Publications Court to rule on press offences. Mansour, a journalist for the now suspended […]

In Somaliland, two journalists working for Radio Horyaal were arrested on 13 July, for allegedly inciting clan violence, and local independent Horn Cable TV (HCTV) has been banned. The International Press Institute (IPI) is concerned that this signals a media crackdown in the autonomous region of Somalia, in the run-up to presidential elections in September. […]

A Zambian newspaper editor who on 10 June, acting on behalf of her newspaper, sent two photographs of a woman giving birth in public to Zambia’s vice-president and health minister, as well as other government and civil society officials, faces up to five years in prison on an ‘obscenity’ charge following her arrest on Monday. […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) along with eight other groups – all of them members of the Press Freedom Mission to Sri Lanka – call on President Mahinda Rajapaksa to redress the perilous media environment in Sri Lanka by combating impunity, releasing imprisoned journalists, introducing legal reforms to safeguard media freedom, and ensuring journalists’ safety […]