The International Press Institute (IPI) today condemned the recent convictions of three Peruvian journalists on defamation charges, and called on the Peruvian government to abolish libel as a criminal offence. On June 5, a judge in Lima sentenced Juan Carlos Tafur, editor of Diario 16, and journalist Roberto More Chávez to two-year suspended prison senteces […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today expressed concern over allegations made on Friday, June 8, in a blog post by Channel 4 reporter Alex Thomson, who claimed that members of the Free Syrian Army (FSA) deliberately put him and his colleagues in the way of Syrian Army fire. Thomson, Channel 4’s anchor and chief correspondent, […]

Read in English Esta mañana, el Instituto Internacional de Prensa (IPI, por sus siglas en inglés) y la Asociación Mundial de Periódicos y Editores de Noticias (WAN-IFRA) hicieron un llamamiento a las autoridades mexicanas exigiendo el inmediato esclarecimiento de la desaparición el pasado viernes de una periodista mexicana de fuente policíaca y su hijo de […]

Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa over the weekend announced he was “seriously considering” directing government ministers to only grant interviews to public media, the latest incident in the leftist administration’s clampdown on critical press. “Why do we have to give interviews … to Televisa, to Teleamazonas, to El Universo if they are private businesses?” Correa asked, according […]