Read this article in English. La restrictiva Ley de Comunicación de Ecuador ha reducido el periodismo de investigación a portales especializados que lidian constantemente con una situación económica precaria. En este sentido, es especialmente preocupante los ataques que han recibido cinco páginas web de noticias en menos de 72 horas y que, como consecuencia, estuvieron offline […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today urged Bahrain to free prominent human rights defender Nabeel Rajab after prosecutors said a charge that he spread “false news” harming the state’s image stemmed from his claim that journalists and international NGOs were banned from entering Bahrain. The disclosure, the first time that Bahrain’s government identified the basis […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today called on Egypt to release an Al Jazeera journalist who was detained on Dec. 20 when he entered the country on holiday and urged authorities not to extend his detention for a third time tomorrow. Egypt’s government accuses Mahmoud Hussein, a Doha-based Egyptian national with more than two decades […]

Greek freelance journalist Anthi Pazianou found herself in the middle of an online abuse campaign in September after the leader of an extreme right-wing movement posted a photo of Pazianou with a refugee football team whose story she had recently covered along with other refugee-related issues on the Greek island of Lesbos. The post, which […]