All independent television and radio broadcasts in Thailand, including transmissions from foreign stations such as the BBC, Fox and CNN, have been suspended since Thursday’s military coup, replaced by a military-run TV and radio broadcast that has been playing throughout the country. Print media, Internet and news apps are still running and available, but social […]

Next month, supporters of Ecuador’s Organic Communications Law will mark the first anniversary of its passage, but many journalists say that there will be little to celebrate because the law has hindered press freedom on numerous occasions. With the approval of this law, the government created the Communication and Information Superintendence Office (SUPERCOM) to monitor, […]

Turkish authorities risk inciting violence against journalists unless they stop verbally attacking those covering last week’s deadly mining disaster in the western town of Soma and call on their supporters to do the same, the International Press Institute (IPI) said today. Hasnain Kazim, an Istanbul-based correspondent for Germany’s Der Spiegel magazine, told Agence France-Presse (AFP) […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today urged Georgian authorities to fully investigate reports that surreptitious eavesdropping that has plagued the country remains ongoing, and not to target media that brought those claims to light. Prosecutors in Tbilisi last week opened a criminal investigation into the “illegal acquisition and release of private communication” after a May […]