One week before the second round of presidential elections in Serbia, scheduled for May 20, 2012, one of the presidential candidates, Tomislav Nikolic, said that he needed to be president in order to tell journalists what to report on. The web portal of the Association of Serbian Journalists (UNS) reported that Nikolic, who represents the […]

Read this article in English  El Instituto Internacional de la Prensa (IPI, por sus siglas en inglés) expresó el lunes sus serias preocupaciones por el deterioro de la libertad de prensa en Ecuador, luego de haber desarrollado una misión de libertad de prensa en el país, entre el 7 y el 11 de mayo. Durante la […]

In the days since the world celebrated World Press Freedom Day the Sudanese press has witnessed great setbacks. On May 3, the entire print run of Al Midan newspaper was confiscated by Sudan’s National Security and Intelligence Services (NISS) and it happened again on May 6, May 8, May 10, May 13 and May 15. […]

The graffiti leapt out at us as we drove through Quito, the capital of Ecuador, on the first day of our May 7-11 IPI press freedom mission: “Weapons of Mass Destruction: El Commercio, El Universo and Teleamazonas” – a derogatory reference to the country’s two  leading independent newspapers, and an independent television broadcaster. Across the […]