In January 2012, Albania’s prime minister, Sali Berisha, declared that his administration would decriminalise slander and on Feb. 17 and Mar. 1, 2012 two sets of reforms, both to the civil and penal code, were voted on in the parliament. However, in February 2012 the Director for Public Relations at the Council of Ministers, Gjovalin […]

Burma has experienced great political change over the past year, including a welcomed reform of the country’s media laws in June 2011 that allowed some publications to publish stories without previous approval by the government’s Press Scrutiny and Registration Department (PSRD). Yesterday Burma saw a historic by-election, which the opposition National League for Democracy (NLD) […]

The Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) today released a detailed study finding that the number of journalists imprisoned in Turkey nearly doubled over the past year, prompting the group to call for immediate reform of the country’s broadly interpreted anti-terror laws. The report – an update to a similar report released one […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today welcomed news that a court in Istanbul has reversed a one-month ban it handed down against Turkish daily newspaper Özgür Gündem for allegedly promoting a terrorist organization. The newspaper’s editor-in-chief, Eren Keskin, confirmed today’s reversal in conversation with a represenative of IPI’s Turkish National Committee. Ferai Tinç, a member […]