The International Press Institute (IPI)’s Turkish National Committee today condemned a media blackout on news about a bomb attack on Saturday that killed 46 people in a town near Turkey’s border with Syria. Turkish daily newspaper Hurriyet reported that Turkey’s broadcasting regulator, the Supreme Board of Radio and Television (RTÜK), limited media coverage of the […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today condemned the attack on a journalist in Benghazi and called upon the authorities to bring the perpetrators to justice and to provide better security for reporters. According to the Libya Herald, on May 4 a group of armed men attacked Mabruka Almesmari, a female freelance photojournalist, during a peaceful […]

The International Press Institute and the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) today welcomed the passage of seminal legislation in Mexico designed to combat the almost complete impunity in cases of crimes committed against the country’s journalists. The changes to the Federal Code on Penal Procedure, among other statutes – all of which […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today hailed the approval by the Cabinet of Trinidad and Tobago of a bill that would partially decriminalise defamation in the country. The bill has now been sent to Parliament, for what is hoped to be swift passage. At a press conference with IPI Executive Director Alison Bethel McKenzie in […]