The International Press Institute (IPI) today called on Jordan to repeal a new law reintroducing prison sentences as a potential punishment for journalists operating in the online sphere and for the head of the country’s Media Commission to follow through on a commitment to start a process to swap the country’s news website licensing requirement for a registration system.

فيينا في 19 تشرين الثاني/نوفمبر 2015 – دعا المعهد الدولي للصحافة (IPI) اليوم الأردن إلى إلغاء القانون الجديد الذي يقضي بإدخال التوقيف كعقوبة محتملة للصحفيين العاملين على الإنترنت ودعا أيضاً رئيس هيئة الإعلام إلى الالتزام ببدء عملية استبدال متطلبات ترخيص المواقع الإخبارية بنظام تسجيل.

Tickets may be sold out, but you can still catch tonight’s discussion on media freedom and democracy in Turkey as it moves beyond its second parliamentary election this year via livestream. The Montreal event, presented by the International Press Institute (IPI) and Concordia University’s Thinking Out Loud series, will bring together veteran Turkish journalist and […]

New draft legislation intended to combat the abuse of Greece’s civil defamation law in cases involving journalists marks a step in the right direction, but must be complemented by the repeal of criminal defamation, the International Press Institute (IPI) and the South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO) said today following a joint three-day visit to […]