The International Press Institute (IPI) today expressed concern about the state of press freedom in Bangladesh following the arrest of a prominent, pro-opposition magazine editor on sedition charges on the heels of the murder of another secular blogger by extremists earlier this month. Authorities on Saturday arrested Shafik Rehman, editor of popular Bengali monthly magazine […]

The year 2015 was one of the deadliest on record for journalists around the world, the International Press Institute (IPI) said today, with 108* journalists believed to have died as a direct result of their job and 36 more killed under circumstances that remain murky. IPI added 108 names from 2015 to its Death Watch, […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today expressed concern over the fate of two Tunisian journalists who went missing in Libya in September 2014 following a new claim that they had been killed at the hands of the Islamic State group. A Libyan detainee believed to be a member of the group said in an interview […]

The following is an appeal from over 80 groups, initiated by the Bahrain Centre for Human Rights (BCHR), the Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) and PEN International’s Writers in Prison Committee (WiPC), calling on the authorities to free human rights defenders, journalists, bloggers and writers in Syria, some of whom have been detained incommunicado: […]