In August, three months after coming to power, the new Pakatan Harapan government in Malaysia repealed the controversial Anti-Fake News Act 2018. This was the first significant step by the ruling party in fulfilling its campaign promise to improve press freedom. A few days earlier, the prime minister, Mahathir Mohamad, appointed the former group editor-in-chief […]

The International Press Institute (IPI), a global network of editors, media executives and leading journalists, today condemned a jail sentence given to two Reuters journalists in Myanmar and demanded their immediate release. A Yangon North district court judge today sentenced the two journalists, Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo, to seven years in prison for […]

“That day, when I went to the police… It was really important that you were supporting me. You gave me a ride to the police station and also back home”, Finnish journalist Linda Pelkonen told her former editor-in-chief at the daily Uusi Suomi, Markku Huusko. Three years after Pelkonen was targeted by an avalanche of […]

The International Press Institute (IPI), a global network of editors, publishers and leading journalists for press freedom, has called on the government of Samoa to repeal a criminal libel law it reintroduced late last year. IPI Deputy Director Scott Griffen made the call during a banquet on Friday, August 25, in Apia, Samoa, honouring the […]