On 20 October, Congressman Chung Rae Jung of the Uri party, which has a parliamentary majority, tabled a proposed amendment to the “Registration, etc. of Periodicals Act” titled, “Act on Preserving the Functions of Newspaper, etc. and Protecting the Interests of the Readers.” The act contains a number of provisions that are deeply hostile to […]

On the eve of his visit to Vienna, Austria, the International Press Institute (IPI) calls on the Ethiopian Prime Minister, Meles Zenawi, to reconsider the need for a new press law and to ensure that any new legislation meets the requirements of the Constitution and international standards on press freedom and freedom of expression. For […]

On 4 November, the Criminal Suppression Division (CSD) of the Thai police invited members of the media to attend a press conference at their provincial police headquarters in Narathi-wat. When the journalists assembled, police officers issued them with summonses telling them to surrender video equipment showing scenes of a recent demonstration. The journalists were questioned […]

On 15 October, the International Press Institute (IPI) and the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) received a statement from one of the presidents of the divided Ethiopian Free Press Journalists’Association (EFJA), Kifle Mulat. In that statement, Mulat outlined his commitment to hold a fourth EFJA General Assembly for the purposes of choosing a new EFJA […]