The International Press Institute (IPI) today condemned the arrest in India of a political cartoonist for sedition following a private complaint over cartoons he produced for an anti-corruption campaign. IPI sources said that Indian political cartoonist Aseem Trivedi was remanded to judicial custody in Mumbai today, and is scheduled be held until at least Sep. […]

Early this year, Dominican journalist Johnny Alberto Salazar was sentenced to six months in jail for slander and libel. The charges stemmed from Salazar’s on-air comments accusing Pedro Baldera, a local Human Rights Committee official, of “protecting delinquents and people linked to organised crime.” Salazar, an elected council member and well-known local gadfly, said prior […]

Two journalists were reportedly killed over the last week, in Tanzania and in the Philippines, according to news reports. The International Press Institute (IPI) condemned the killings and called for full investigations into the circumstances of their deaths. In Tanzania, Channel Ten reporter Daudi Mwangosi was allegedly killed by police on Sunday while covering a […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today again expressed deep concern over the fate of two foreign journalists reportedly captured by Syrian loyalist forces in Aleppo last month after the Syrian government on Tuesday denied that it was holding one of them. The Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), which oversees U.S.-funded Arabic-language satellite station Al Hurra, […]