The International Press Institute (IPI) and its affiliate, the South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), today condemned reported instances of censorship by Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) related to the party’s Congress yesterday in Ankara. Hürriyet reported that the party barred dissident newspapers and television channels from covering the event, including daily newspapers […]

The Vienna–based South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), an affiliate of the International Press Institute (IPI), today expressed concern at reports that journalists from the Pristina–based daily Koha Ditore and from privately-owned Kohavision (KTV) television were prevented from covering a major cultural event, the PriFest film festival, which takes place in Pristina, Kosovo. On Sept. […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today criticised an Italian court’s decision upholding an editor’s 14-month prison sentence for criminal libel, but the press freedom group expressed hope that the decision could lead to long-overdue reforms of Italian defamation law. A statement posted on Italian President Giorgio Napolitano’s website yesterday said that he and Justice Minister […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today condemned the Argentine government’s use of television advertising to threaten Grupo Clarín, and renewed its call on President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner to end her verbal attacks on the press. Speaking yesterday before a group of students in the Washington, Kirchner complained that “when a journalist doesn’t like something, […]