President Ernest Bai Koroma State House Freetown, Sierra Leone Vienna, Nov. 16, 2012 Dear President Ernest Bai Koroma, Your Excellency, I am writing today from the International Press Institute in Vienna, Austria to respectfully request that your government ensure that journalists covering tomorrow’s election are able to do so without fear of harassment, violence or […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today condemned the physical attack on a Dominican Republic journalist at the hands of a business owner whose activities the journalist had recently criticised. According to local media, Manuel Guillermo Mejía, the director of broadcaster Peravia Noticias, had reported that businesses belonging to Ramón de los Santos were blocking sidewalks […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today announced that it will hold its 2013 annual world congress in Amman, Jordan, from May 19-21, 2013. Titled “Documenting Change / Empowering Media”, the two-day congress is being organized in cooperation with the Amman-based Center for Defending Freedom of Journalists (CDFJ) and will examine the many challenges, concerns and […]

The countries of Belarus, Hungary, Turkey and Ukraine each provide troubling examples of a backslide on media freedom issues in Europe, the International Press Institute (IPI) said today as it unveiled a “Europe Watch List” to highlight and combat that trend. The four countries represent “Focus Countries” on the List, posted on IPI’s website, which […]