The Freedom for Journalists Platform (GOP), an umbrella group representing local and national free expression groups in Turkey, has released a formal declaration calling on the country’s government to take major steps to reverse a sharp decline in the state of press freedom and freedom of expression in recent years. Members of the GOP, which […]

The Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) today marked the 19th anniversary of Gambian President Yahya Jammeh’s rise to power with the launch of a campaign to highlight the continued deterioration of press freedom in the country. The MFWA’s “Gambia Day of Action” calls on Internet users worldwide to protest a “new draconian Internet law” […]

Authorities in Zambia last week arrested two journalists with alleged ties to a controversial government watchdog website and charged them with sedition, local media reported. Thomas Zyambo, a journalist who was allegedly working for the online news source, the Zambian Watchdog, was arrested on July 9 along with another journalist and academic, Clayson Hamasaka, in […]

Sometimes making a little noise can make a big difference. That may have been the case yesterday in the Caribbean island nation of Grenada, where members of the upper house of Parliament, the Senate, have reportedly returned a controversial electronic defamation bill back to the lower house (House of Representatives) for further deliberations. IPI warmly […]