In voting last month to repeal their country’s centuries-old blasphemy law, Danish lawmakers joined a growing trend in Europe toward securing free speech on matters related to religion. A comprehensive IPI study on criminal defamation and insult laws published in March by the Representative on Freedom of the Media of the Organization for Security and […]

Polish prosecutors should reject a request by the country’s defence ministry to prosecute an investigative journalist whose recent book outlined alleged links between the defence minister’s associates, Russian intelligence services and organised crime, the International Press Institute (IPI) said today. The ministry last week asked the military department of Poland’s National Prosecutor’s Office to investigate […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today condemned the two-year prison sentence that a Bahrain court gave human rights activist Nabeel Rajab on accusations that he spread “false or malicious” information in a bid to harm the country’s image. The court issued the sentence yesterday. Rajab was not present for the proceeding, but was instead in […]

A Johannesburg court today granted South African journalists’ request for an order to stop a campaign of intimidation by activists from a group seeking expropriation of white-owned land who last week picketed the home of an editor and published a list of journalists to target. The South African National Editor’s Forum (SANEF) on Tuesday asked […]