Articles by International Press Institute (IPI)
![25 September 2014 file photo of members of the Ansarullah Bangla Team , Demotix/reazsumon](https://ifex.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/bangladesh_abt_demotix.jpg)
Bangladeshi journalists and bloggers among 24 named in death threat
A threatening letter by banned Islamist group Ansarullah Bangla Team apparently targets people for their perceived support for war crimes trials stemming from Bangladesh’s bloody 1971 war of independence.
![Journalists hold candles in memory of freelance journalist Joginder Singh in New Delhi, 12 June 2015, AP Photo/Saurabh Das](https://ifex.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/india_j_killed_ap.jpg)
Indian journalist beaten, dragged after another burned to death
Police have reportedly opened an investigation centred on a man that journalist Haider Khan’s reporting implicated in a wrongful land transfer.
![In this April 11, 2013 file photo, Jason Rezaian, right, an Iranian-American correspondent for the Washington Post, and his wife Yeganeh Salehi, AP Photo/Vahid Salemi, File](https://ifex.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/mideast_iran_reporter_apimages2.jpg)
Iran trial for U.S. journalist resumes behind closed doors
Jason Rezaian is being held on charges of spying and collaborating with hostile governments, gathering classified information and disseminating propaganda against the Islamic Republic. International observers have criticised the charges as being politically motivated.
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An open letter calling for justice for slain journalist Ibrahim Foday
Four years after Sierra Leone Journalist Ibrahim Foday’s death, members of IFEX join the Media Foundation for West Africa in calling for more rapid progress.
![A badge hangs from the jacket of Al Jazeera reporter Peter Greste of Australia as he talks during an interview with Reuters in Sydney, Australia, 29 May 2015, REUTERS/David Gray](https://ifex.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/egypt_petergreste_reuters.jpg)
Deterioration of press freedom in Egypt continues
Recent developments in Egypt, including the sentencing of two well-known journalists to prison and claims by supporters that a group of journalists condemned to life imprisonment were being held in inhumane conditions pending appeal, mark a further deterioration in media freedom.
![A man reads a newspaper during a sit-in organized by Sudanese opposition parties in Khartoum, 11 April 2015, AP Photo/Mosa'ab Elshamy](https://ifex.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/sudan_newspaper_khartoum_apimages_5june2015.jpg)
Sudanese intelligence services confiscate 10 newspapers
This mass confiscation of newspapers calls to mind a similar occurrence that took place on 16 February 2015, when Sudan’s National Intelligence and Security Services seized the print runs of 14 daily newspapers without any explanation.
![An officer secures the area on an elevated platform as President Erdogan delivers a speech in Istanbul, 30 May 2015, AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis](https://ifex.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/turkey_erdogan_largescreen_3june215_apimages.jpg)
Erdogan threatens Cumhuriyet’s editor-in-chief in lead-up to Turkish elections
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan vowed that an editor would “pay a high price” for reporting on the country’s role in sending weapons to Syria, the latest in an alarming series of attacks on critical media ahead of a 7 June parliamentary election.
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Syrian judge postpones Mazen Darwish’s court date again
The development is particularly concerning given the fact that Darwish and his fellow imprisoned colleagues from the Syrian Centre for Media and Freedom of Expression were not brought to court and their whereabouts remain unknown.