Where in the Caribbean can journalists be sent to prison for doing their job? The answer: Everywhere. A comprehensive legal review conducted by the International Press Institute (IPI) confirmed that every independent state considered geographically or culturally part of the Caribbean maintains some form of criminal defamation that could result in imprisonment.   Of those 16 […]

The International Press Institue (IPI) today released a final report on its June mission to four Caribbean countries, cautiously welcoming progress in three of them toward the repeal of criminal defamation and insult laws but urging political leaders to remain committed to reform. During the nearly two-week long mission, IPI delegates met with representatives of government, […]

Independent Russian television channel Sovershenno Sekretno (“Top Secret”) TV said it is facing closure after a state-owned broadcaster indicated that it would terminate a contract to carry the channel’s signal next March, some 20 months early. The 24-hour channel – which was launched six years ago and reaches 15 million people in Russia, the CIS, […]

The Vienna-based South East Europe Media Organization (SEEMO), an affiliate of the International Press Institute (IPI), today noted an increased number of attacks against sports journalists in Greece following two incidents in the last week. On Oct. 4, two individuals physically attacked Antonis Kalkabouras, a reporter with Mega TV, after a game between the Panathinaikos […]