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 […]

According to information provided to IPI, journalists were barred from covering last month’s events in Uzbekistan. For several days after the unrest in Andizhan, eastern Uzbekistan, on 13 May, all local and foreign journalists were prevented from reporting in the city. The army and police sealed off the city and those journalists already present were […]