World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers

Forty-two IFEX members and 15 partners appealed for global attention to stop detention, torture and threats to journalists and free expression activists, including to IFEX member Bahrain Centre for Human Rights.

Freedom of expression organisations express deep concern over the continued imprisonment of journalist Eynulla Fatullayev.

“There is a growing understanding in the developed, democratic world that a lack of press freedom is not only an issue in developing and non-democratic countries but (. . .) needs to be defended in mature democratic nations as well,” said WAN-IFRA.

Along with its development partners, MISA will host the Windhoek +20 Conference in Windhoek, under the theme: “Media in Africa 20 Years On: Our Past, Present and Future”.

In its seventh formal mission to Tunisia, and the second visit since deposed President Zine El Abedine Ben Ali fled the country, an IFEX-TMG delegation spent over a week meeting a wide range of stakeholders as part of the ongoing assessment of the state of freedom of expression in the country.

In the weeks leading up to the 11-15 April Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe session, the authorities have engaged in a crackdown on freedom of expression in the country.

Aboubakr Jamaï, co-founder and former managing director of the weekly newspaper “Le Journal Hebdomadaire”, was awarded the prize in a Beirut ceremony.

WAN-IFRA has called on governments across the Middle East and North Africa to seize a historic opportunity to recognise and support the essential role a free and independent press must play in the democratisation process.