The International Press Institute (IPI) today condemned attacks yesterday on the offices of Turkish-language newspaper Zaman in Paris and in the German city of Cologne allegedly carried out by supporters of the banned Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK). Zaman reported that a group of nearly 15 PKK supporters wearing masks entered its Paris office and threatened […]

Police in the Dominican Republic last Friday used a SWAT team to raid the home and offices of a prominent journalist as part of an investigation into an alleged spying scandal targeting high-ranking public officials. The journalist in question, Guillermo Gómez, producer of the television program Aeromundo and owner of the digital newspaper El Siglo […]

Read this article in English En un pequeño poblado en la provincia argentina de La Pampa, el editor de un periódico fue agredido el 19 de enero por la esposa y el hijo del vice-intendente local, luego de haber publicado un artículo que criticaba al gobierno municipal. Un periódico comunitario de 26 años de edad […]

Lea este artículo en español In a tiny town in Argentina’s sparsely populated La Pampa province, a newspaper editor was assaulted on 19 January by the wife and son of the town’s deputy mayor after publishing a piece critical of the municipal government. A 26-year-old community newspaper in Porto Alegre, Brazil, with a circulation of […]