The International Press Institute (IPI) and the South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO) today welcomed support from key Croatian parliamentarians for the repeal of the country’s criminal defamation laws. Meeting with a joint IPI/SEEMO delegation in Zagreb, Mladen Novak, chair of the parliamentary Committee on Information, Computerisation and the Media, called criminal defamation laws “unacceptable” […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today joined press freedom groups in urging Peruvian authorities not to rule out a young journalist’s investigative work as a possible motive for his murder last weekend. Fernando Raymondi, a journalist working for the weekly magazine Caretas, was shot and killed in what national investigative authorities in Peru are calling […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) has called on Myanmar to thoroughly investigate the recent death of a journalist at the hands of the military and to release five staffers from a weekly newspaper sentenced to seven years behind bars. IPI Executive Director Alison Bethel McKenzie in an open letter urged Myanmar Attorney General Dr. Tun […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) expressed sadness today at news of the death of former IPI Executive Board member Peter Pi Cheng Wang on Nov. 7. Wang was an active IPI Executive Board member from 1983 to 1991, and a long-time member of IPI and participant at IPI World Congresses. He was named an IPI […]