In July of this year, Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto signed into law a new regulatory framework for the country’s telecommunications sector (Ley de Telecomunicaciones y Radiodifusión, “Broadcasting and Telecommunciations Act”). The legislation was designed to put into practice a 2013 constitutional reform that, according to the Mexican government, aimed to increase competition in a historically […]

Russian photographer Emil Gataullin received the prestigious Alfred Fried Photography Award in Vienna on Monday for a series of black-and-white images capturing the rhythms of rural life in his native country. The prize, now in its second year, celebrates the world’s best picture on the theme of peace. Gataullin was honoured at a ceremony inside […]

A Slovenian journalist accused of publishing classified state intelligence will now stand trial, a judge in Ljubljana ruled this week after more than a year and a half of deliberation. Anuška Delić, an investigative reporter for Delo, a leading Slovenian daily, is charged with violating Article 260 of the Slovenian Criminal Code on the dissemination […]

German freelance journalists Thomas Datt and Arndt Ginzel could have been forgiven for assuming that their 2010 criminal trial for defamation would end in an acquittal. The application of Germany’s criminal libel provisions to journalists, as commentators observed, was itself already so unusual that the possibility of an actual conviction must have seemed utterly inconceivable. […]