The International Press Institute (IPI) today called for a thorough and swift investigation into yesterday’s brutal murder of American-Bangladeshi blogger Avijit Roy in Dhaka. Roy and his wife, Rafida Ahmed, were leaving a book fair in the Bangladeshi capital late in the evening when they were attacked by unidentified men with machetes. Roy died of […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today named as its 67th World Press Freedom Hero prominent Syrian lawyer and human rights defender Mazen Darwish, who has advocated for media freedom in his country for more than 10 years, and for the last three from behind bars. IPI also announced Mexican journalists’ network Periodistas de a Pie […]

Lea este comunicado en español The International Press Institute (IPI) today called on Colombian authorities to immediately open an investigation into the murder of radio journalist Luis Peralta Cuéllar. Peralta was shot various times while leaving the offices of his radio station, Linda Stereo 95.1, on Saturday, Feb. 14, in the department of Caquetá. According to […]

Ecuador’s media regulator on Friday ordered the daily newspaper El Universo to issue a public apology over a political cartoon satirising a lawmaker from President Rafael Correa’s party. In a statement, the Superintendent of Information and Communication (Supercom) said the cartoon amounted to “socio-economic discrimination” against the Afro-Ecuadorian community and therefore violated Ecuador’s Communications Law. […]