A delegation from the International Press Institute (IPI) today concluded a weeklong press freedom mission to Ecuador, after discussions with the vice-president, government, media owners, editors, journalists, civil society organisations and politicians. IPI visited both the capital, Quito, and Guayaquil. Anthony Mills, IPI Acting Deputy Director, and Mariela Hoyer Guerrero, Press Freedom Adviser for Latin […]

IPI welcomed the decision by Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf to work toward the repeal of criminal defamation laws in her country, which came amid other recent positive developments with respect to libel laws around the world. In a speech given on May 3, President Johnson Sirleaf endorsed the Declaration of Table Mountain, which calls […]

The bullet-riddled body of Pakistani journalist Tariq Kamal, a Karachi-based reporter for a local Sindhi newspaper, was found on May 9 in the Pak Colony neighborhood of Karachi. The journalist had been reportedly kidnapped on May 6. The journalist’s body, which showed signs of severe torture, was found together with the body of his friend, […]

Alfredo Villatoro, presenter of the morning news program and News Director at the major Honduran radio station, HRN radio, was kidnapped Wednesday morning near his residence at 4:50 a.m., just outside the capital city Tegucigalpa. Villatoro was on his way to the office when he was abducted from his vehicle. A colleague at the radio […]