The International Press Institute (IPI) today condemned the attempted bombing of the headquarters of Yemen Shabab TV and al-Masdar newspaper and called upon authorities to investigation the attacks and bring the perpetrators to justice. A report from the Freedom Foundation in Yemen, which quoted Yemen Shabab TV and al-Masdar newspaper, stated that on Wednesday an […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today welcomed commitments made by the political leadership in Antigua and Barbuda to repeal criminal defamation – possibly as soon as May 3, World Press Freedom Day. In a meeting Monday with IPI delegates, Prime Minister Winston Baldwin Spencer agreed that criminal defamation laws have no place in a democracy. […]

As if it were not enough that journalists covering the Syrian conflict have been targeted for kidnap or attack, killed by bombs and threatened with their lives, their enemies have a new tactic: Using social media to put inflammatory words in their mouths and a price on their heads. On March 31, Kuwaiti Fahim Saqr, […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today urged Ecuadorian authorities to conduct a swift and comprehensive investigation into the killing of journalist Fausto Valdiviezo. Valdiviezo, who for more than three decades worked as journalist and newscaster for several channels such as Ecuavisa, SíTV, and RTS y TC Televisión, was killed on Thursday, Apr. 11, in the […]