The 234 articles of Egypt’s new draft constitution have been approved by the country’s constituent assembly, and the charter will now be voted on by the public in a referendum. Proponents have hailed the arrival of a constitution they say enshrines the values of the revolution, but when it comes to journalists’ rights, observers fear […]

The report on the public inquiry into the practices of UK newspapers led by Lord Justice Leveson was released yesterday, amid ardent criticism of what some observers interpreted as a door-opener for stricter, statutory regulation of the press. In a speech accompanying his presentation of the report, Leveson noted that “the press, operating freely and […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today welcomed news that journalist and publisher Bedri Adanir, who had been imprisoned in Turkey for nearly three years, has been released. A court in Diyarbakir on Tuesday ordered Adanir, owner of Aram Publishing and a writer for Kurdish daily newspaper Hawar, freed after convicting him of aiding a terrorist […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today urged Italy to decriminalise defamation after the country’s Senate rejected a measure that would have retained imprisonment as a possible penalty for the offence. The Senate’s 123-29 vote yesterday reversed its approval earlier this month of an amendment to existing law that would have seen journalists convicted of libel […]