Lea esta noticia en español. Three Spanish media outlets announced this week that they would challenge Spain’s new Public Security Law, popularly known as the “gag law”, at the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR). La Directa (Barcelona), Diagonal (Madrid) and Ahötsa (Navarra) have filed the claim as “potential victims of human rights violations” according […]

An Austrian investigative news platform that documented poor conditions in asylum-seeker housing across Austria was ordered Monday to pay nearly €2,000 for trespassing after the landlord of one of the housing sites brought suit. A regional court in the eastern Austrian state of Burgenland confirmed a lower court’s ruling that the platform, Dossier, had violated […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) and the South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO) today expressed solidarity with two foreign photojournalists physically assaulted on the Greek island of Lesbos while attempting to cover the ongoing refugee crisis. According to local media reports, AFP photographer Aris Messinis and American freelancer Nicole Tung were ordered by a volunteer […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today expressed concern over the potential chilling effect of a controversial social media bill in Nigeria, urging lawmakers not to approve the measure and welcoming President Muhammadu Buhari’s pledge to veto it if passed. The “Frivolous Petitions Bill” has drawn controversy for a provision stipulating that anyone who posts an […]