The International Press Institute (IPI) today welcomed the European Parliament resolution of 15 September in which the body called on Eritrea to “to lift the ban on the country’s independent press and to immediately release the independent journalists and all others who have been jailed simply for exercising their right to freedom of expression.” The […]

IPI today announced its concern at a spate of attacks against the media in Egypt over the last week. Journalists from local media, U.S. public broadcaster PBS and CNN were reportedly attacked on Saturday while covering the aftermath of the demonstration-turned-attack at the Israeli embassy in Cairo on Friday. Meanwhile, on Sunday, as the head […]

Reporter and political activist Medardo Flores was killed last Thursday in the northern city of Puerto Cortés, in Honduras, AFP reported. He was attacked in his car by at least two gunmen while he was driving back to his ranch and was struck by nine bullets, the local press reported. According to the International Press […]

Umar Cheema is an award winning investigative reporter for The News, the largest English-language newspaper in Pakistan. In September 2010, he was kidnapped, tortured, blindfolded and handcuffed, and finally dumped outside Islamabad by masked men, who warned him not to speak about the incident. After his release, Cheema immediately went on television to tell his […]