The International Press Institute has condemned in strongest possible terms the recent passage of amendments to The Gambia’s Information and Communication Act, which will severely hamper press freedom, especially on the Internet, and have a strong chilling effect on journalists’ efforts to scrutinise their government. IPI urges lawmakers in The Gambia to repeal these amendments, […]

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 […]

According to local and international reports, police in Honduras have found the remains of the popular television journalist Anibal Barrow, who was kidnapped last month outside of San Pedro Sula. Honduran police chief Juan Bonilla said that officers found clothing that Barrow was seen wearing on the day of his kidnapping. They also found a […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) condemns the Malaysian government’s recent refusal to admit IPI’s 2013 Free Media Pioneer award winner, Clare Rewcastle Brown, into the country, and calls on authorities there to reverse this decision immediately. On July 3, Rewcastle Brown was travelling to the Sarawak state’s administrative capital of Kuching on the island of […]