The International Press Institute (IPI) today urged Colombian authorities to remain vigilant in helping ensure the safety of the country’s journalists following the revelation Monday of a plan to assassinate a respected reporter together with two civil society researchers. Officials at Colombia’s national journalist-protection unit announced they had raised security for freelance reporter Gonzálo Guillén […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today urged Azerbaijan’s president to veto a bill that would expand the criminal offences of slander and insult to apply to information posted online. The country’s National Assembly on Tuesday approved the proposal, which now goes before President Ilham Aliyev, who in 2011 set forth a National Action Plan on […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) has urged the prime minister of Denmark to withdraw two measures that would restrict voters’ access to information connected to the law-making process. The controversial proposals, part of a revision of Denmark’s public information law currently before parliament, would “prevent journalists from giving voters the information they need to ensure […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today said that it was deeply troubled by news that the U.S. Justice Department secretly seized two months of telephone records of Associated Press (AP) journalists and the group demanded an explanation. AP CEO Gary Pruitt protested the “massive and unprecedented intrusion” into AP’s newsgathering activities in a letter to […]