Portugal needs to urgently update its defamation laws to meet international standards and the demands of modern democratic society, a report released today by the International Press Institute (IPI) concludes. Defamation and insult remain criminal offences in Portugal punishable by up to two years behind bars despite the fact that a number of international human rights […]

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday vowed that a journalist would “pay a high price” for reporting on the country’s role in sending weapons to Syrian areas under Islamist rebel control, the latest in an alarming series of attacks by Erdogan and his supporters on critical media ahead of a June 7 parliamentary election. […]

A Syrian judge yesterday postponed the trial of IPI World Press Freedom Hero Mazen Darwish again, but in a troubling move set no new court date. The development is particularly concerning given the fact that Darwish and his fellow imprisoned colleagues from the Syrian Centre for Media and Freedom of Expression (SCM) – Hussain Ghrer […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today mourned the passing of publisher, journalist and long-time IPI member Norbert Neininger, who died on Saturday following a battle with cancer. Neininger, 64, was a respected, well-known journalist, who served the Swiss daily Schaffhauser Nachrichten for more than 40 years as contributor, chief editor and publisher. He was also […]