Members of the International Press Institute (IPI), the world’s oldest global press freedom organisation, have re-elected Prof. Dr. Carl-Eugen Eberle as chairman of the group’s 27-member Executive Board and have elected nine new board members. The move came at IPI’s Annual World Congress and General Assembly from 24-27 September in Taipei, Taiwan, where the group […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today called on Guyana’s president to rescind an order that effectively prevents an opposition TV station from broadcasting in the run-up to general elections later this year. The Associated Press (AP) reported that President Bharrat Jagdeo on Friday banned CNS TV-6 from broadcasting for four months, citing an allegedly slanderous […]

Mónica Oblitas is in danger. She feels lost, uneasy. Everything has changed for this Bolivian journalist since she published, in La Prensa newspaper, an investigative report about alleged corruption in the Bolivian Forensic Research Institute. She has received anonymous threatening phone calls, text messages and emails; she and her son have been followed and the […]

A group of armed policeman have intimidated the family of the editor of the Zambian Watchdog news website, the editor told IPI on Friday. According to the editor, police went to his hometown and threatened to beat his 82 year-old grandfather if the man refused to reveal the whereabouts of his grandson. At the same […]