Lea en español An appeals court in the Dominican Republic yesterday threw out the criminal defamation conviction of Nagua radio journalist Johnny Alberto Salazar, who in January was sentenced to six months in prison for allegedly libelling a local lawyer. According to local news reports, justices of the Court of Appeal for San Francisco de […]

Read in English Una Corte de Apelación de la Republica Dominicana desestimó el día de ayer la condena por difamación penal contra Johnny Alberto Salazar, periodista radial del pueblo de Nagua, quien había sido sentenciado en enero a seis meses de prisión por supuesta “difamación e injuria” contra un abogado de la localidad. De acuerdo […]

Feb. 27, 2012 marked the symbolic transition of power in Yemen from former President Ali Abdullah Saleh to newly-elected President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi. Massive demonstrations and uprisings beginning in Jan. 2011 brought about the change of power from Saleh to Hadi, illustrating the peoples’ desire for democracy. The end of Saleh’s 33-year-long dictatorship ushered […]

The Vienna-based South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), an affiliate of the International Press Institute (IPI), today called on Milorad Dodik, president of Republika Srpska, the Serbian entity in Bosnia and Herzegovina, to respect press freedom as an essential democratic right. On June 2, 2012, Dodik asked Ljiljana Kovacevic, the local correspondent of the Belgrade-based […]