Just days after criminal charges were dropped against Gambian journalists Abubacarr Saidykhan and Babucarr Ceesay, they have received an emailed death threat. The International Press Institute expressed deep concern and called for an investigation. The note, which they received last Thursday, reads in part: “I have stepped in voluntarily to kill all of you and […]

A Greek investigative journalist faces trial on Thursday on a charge of interfering with sensitive personal data after he published a list of some 2,059 Greek residents who hold Swiss bank accounts, some of whom are suspected of evading taxes. Police on Sunday detained and later released Kostas Vaxevanis, one day after he published a […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today said it considered highly inappropriate the recent remarks made by Trinidad and Tobago Communications Minister Jamal Mohammed to Dominic Kalipersad, head of news at CCN TV 6. Last Tuesday, Mohammed sent a personal e-mail message to Kalipersad accusing CCN TV 6 and the newspaper Express of being prejudiced against […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) has denounced in the strongest terms possible an attack yesterday on a northern Bolivian radio station in which masked individuals set the station’s director on fire during a live broadcast. Fernando Vidal, 78, owner and editor of Radio Popular in Yacuiba, near the Argentine border, was in intensive care Tuesday […]