Lea en español The International Press Institute (IPI) condemned an alleged attack by a police officer on a photojournalist covering a general strike in Lisbon yesterday. Reuters released an image it said showed a police officer striking Agence France-Presse (AFP) photojournalist Patricia Melo as she covered the strike called by Portugal’s biggest trade union confederation […]

Read in English El Instituto Internacional de la Prensa (IPI, por sus siglas en inglés), condenó el supuesto ataque de un agente policial a una reportera gráfica que estaba cubriendo ayer en Lisboa una huelga general. Reuters difundió una imagen en la que, según dijo la agencia, se mostraba a un policía golpeando a la […]

IPI is concerned about a recent trend of censorship through the confiscation of newspapers in Sudan. The Sudanese authorities confiscated the fourth issue of Al Midan in a row on March 20, and have also banned two journalists for Alwan, Mujahid Abdullah and Essam Jaafar, from writing for any Sudanese newspaper, according to the Arabic […]

Lea en español Last week’s sentencing of a Bolivian news magazine editor convicted of slandering a government lawyer to two-and-a-half years in prison underscores the urgency with which Bolivia must revisit its criminal-defamation laws, the International Press Institute (IPI) said today. The editor, Rogelio Peláez of Larga Vista, had been the defendant in a suit […]