With Italy’s Senate preparing for a final vote on a long-pending defamation reform bill, the International Press Institute (IPI) today called on the body’s members to adopt key amendments aimed at bringing the measure in line with international standards on free expression. As it stands, the bill, which was approved by the Chamber of Deputies […]

Four journalists with the Burmese weekly Unity, as well as the company’s CEO U Tin Hsan, have had their prison sentences reduced to seven years upon appeal, Mizzima News reported last week. The journalists had been originally sentenced in July to ten years in prison with hard labour by a court in the Magway Region […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) expressed dismay at the decision of a Honduran appeals court to reinstate a 16-month journalism ban against Globo TV news programme host Julio Ernesto Alvarado. The ruling, handed down in August but apparently only made available to Alvarado’s lawyer at the end of September, is the result of a criminal […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today welcomed a decision by prosecutors in Slovakia to drop criminal libel charges against journalist Dušan Karolyi. Slovakia’s General Prosecutor, Jaromír Čižnár, announced the move last week after previously committing to review Karolyi’s case in early September following outcry from regional press freedom groups, including IPI’s Slovak National Committee. The […]