A Cuban journalist who had been covering a sensitive cholera outbreak has been charged with defaming Fidel and Raúl Castro, the editor of one of Cuba’s leading independent news agencies said yesterday. In a message transmitted via the Háblalo sin miedo voice platform, Roberto Guerra Pérez of Hablemos Press said that Cuban authorities have charged […]

Deutsch The International Press Institute (IPI)’s German National Committee today condemned Belarusian police officers’ detention of a number of journalists on Tuesday and the officers’ reported beating of some of the journalists. RFE/RL reported that plainclothes police officers in Minsk detained journalists from Reuters, AP and Germany’s ZDF television – as well as journalists from […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today joined an international chorus of voices urging Ukraine to reject moves to re-criminalise defamation. Reuters reported that deputies from President Viktor Yanukovych’s Party of Regions and their allies in parliament on Tuesday gave preliminary approval to a draft law that would provide for up to five years imprisonment for […]

Read this article in English Einem Bericht der ZDF-Korrespondentin Anne Gellinek auf heute.de zufolge gehen die Behörden in Weißrussland mit Gewalt gegen Journalisten vor, die über die bevorstehenden Parlamentswahlen berichten wollen. Ihr selbst sei ein Visum verweigert worden, um sie an der Arbeit zu hindern. Mitarbeiter ihres Teams seien bei Fernsehaufnahmen von jungen Oppositionellen zu […]