The International Press Institute (IPI) today warmly congratulated the Justice Committee of the Dominican Republic Chamber of Deputies for removing prison penalties for defamation and insult from the draft penal code under consideration. In a letter to the Committee’s president, Demóstenes Martínez Hernández, IPI Executive Director Alison Bethel McKenzie lauded the move “an important step […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today noted improvements in the security situation of Kenyan and international journalists covering the Kenyan elections on Monday, Mar. 4, 2013, and their aftermath. Concerns for media workers had mounted in the run-up to the elections. Alarming reports by the Kenya Correspondents Association (KCA) said that a number of journalists […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) and its affiliate, the South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), today joined calls urging authorities to investigate Tuesday’s beating of a newspaper editor in central Ukraine. The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), citing a report from the Kiev-based Institute for Mass Information (IMI), said yesterday that three unidentified men attacked […]

An Antigua and Barbuda-based online news website reported yesterday that one of its journalists had been shot at several times after covering a West Indies cricket match on Sunday night. According to the website, Caribarena, the incident occurred outside of Sir Vivian Richards Stadium in North Sound, Antigua. The journalist escaped the scene unharmed, while […]