On 15 December, the Bratislava regional court ruled that the daily Sme must pay three million Slovak koruny (approx. 77,395 EUR) as compensation to Supreme Court Judge Harald Stiffel for asserting that the judge was “partially responsible” for a sentence handed down to a Catholic priest in a “staged political trial” during the Communist regime. […]

On 9 December, U.S. District Judge Ernest C. Torres sentenced Jim Taricani, a Rhode Island investigative reporter with WJAR television, to six months’ house arrest. Prior to the sentencing hearing, on 18 November, Judge Torres had found Taricani guilty of criminal contempt. The case arose from Taricani’s refusal to divulge the name of the source […]

Editors, media executives and leading journalists from around the globe will attend the IPI World Congress and 54th General Assembly, to be held at the Hotel Intercontinental Nairobi from 21-24 May 2005. President Mwai Kibaki, who won a landslide victory in the 2002 general elections, ending President Daniel arap Moi’s 24-year rule, will open the […]

His Excellency Hugo Chávez Fríaz President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela Palacio de Miraflores Caracas Venezuela Fax: (+58212) 806 3221 Vienna, 7 December 2004 Your Excellency, The International Press Institute (IPI), the global network of editors, leading journalists and media executives in over 120 countries, strongly condemns the decision to promulgate a controversial media […]