Togo authorities must allow the media to freely and safely cover the April 29 parliamentary and regional elections, the International Press Institute (IPI) said today. There is growing pressure on journalists in Togo ahead of the vote. This month, authorities arrested and expelled French journalist Thomas Dietrich. Additionally, the country’s media regulatory body suspended accreditation […]

The Media Freedom Rapid Response consortium partners criticize the criminal defamation lawsuit filed by Interior Minister Kalin Stoyanov against investigative journalists Atanas Chobanov and Dimitar Stoyanov of the Bureau for Investigative Reporting and Data (BIRD). The undersigned organisations believe that the lawsuit is designed to silence legitimate investigative reporting and should be immediately withdrawn.  The […]

Tre giornalisti del quotidiano italiano Domani – Giovanni Tizian, Nello Trocchia, Stefano Vergine – rischiano fino a 9 anni di carcere. Sono indagati dai magistrati della procura di Perugia con l’accusa di aver chiesto e ricevuto documenti riservati da un pubblico ufficiale, e di aver violato il segreto istruttorio attraverso la richiesta e la pubblicazione […]

Three reporters at Domani – Giovanni Tizian, Nello Trocchia, Stefano Vergine – are facing up to 9 years in prison. They are under investigation by Perugia Prosecutor’s Office for allegedly having requested and received confidential documents from a public official, and for allegedly breaching the secrecy of the investigation through the request and publication of […]