A new coalition government is in place as Yemenis prepare for elections next month, which has been some cause for some optimism. Two Yemeni chief editors told IPI they were hopeful that nascent reforms within state media and the recent appointment of a new information minister, Ali al-Amrani, could herald overall improvements for the media […]

The statement below was issued by the Tunisia Monitoring Group, a coalition of over 20 free expression and press freedom organizations including IPI that are grouped under the umbrella of the International Freedom of Expression eXchange (IFEX). IFEX-TMG concerned by attacks on journalists and academics Despite promises by Tunisia’s new government to uphold free expression, […]

Unknown gunmen shot a Mexican journalist dead on Friday in the country’s first murder of a journalist this year. AP reported that journalist Raul Quirino Garza, a municipal employee who also worked for local weekly newspaper La Ultima Palabra, was killed on Friday in the state of Monterrey. A spokesman for the state detectives agency, […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) on Thursday expressed dismay at the alleged assault of a journalist by a Bangladeshi MP whom the reporter was attempting to interview over allegations that a decision by the MP, in his role as president of a school managing committee, to charge higher admission fees was in violation of the […]