According to information before the International Press Institute (IPI), hundreds of journalists have been arrested and detained this week as protests against the state’s current restrictions on reporting continue. In the most recent development, on 13 June, police in the Kavre district postponed diffusing a bomb in order to intervene in a peaceful protest to […]

According to information provided to IPI, on the evening of 8 June, newspaper distributor Fikre Gudu was arrested at his home. The authorities have given no official explanation for Gudu’s arrest and it is not known whether he has been charged with an offence. Gudu, who is a well-known distributor of large numbers of newspapers […]

According to information provided to the International Press Institute (IPI), journalists reporting on violent street clashes in Addis Ababa between police and students protesting over the 15 May parliamentary elections have come under increased pressure from the authorities. On 7 June, the Information Ministry revoked the accreditation of five Ethiopian journalists, Taddesse Engidaw and Assegdech […]

Based on information provided to IPI, on 8 June, police arrested some 50 journalists in Nepal’s capital Kathmandu. The arrests came after journalists marched in protest through streets close to the royal palace. The protests allegedly follow the decision of the Nepalese Supreme Court to reverse a closure order issued by the Ministry for Information […]