Vienna 25 July 2011-The Vienna-based South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), an affiliate of the International Press Institute (IPI), welcomes the 19 July 2011 announcement  by Serbia´s  State Secretary in the Ministry of Justice, Slobodan Homen, that  defamation and libel will be removed from the country´s criminal code in autumn 2011. Once parliament approves these […]

Nine days after two clearly marked Vijesti company cars were set ablaze on 14 July 2011 in front of the National Security Agency in Podgorica, Montenegro, on 23 July 2011 another car belonging to the daily was torched. The car was parked in another location. The Vienna-based South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), an affiliate […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today said it is disturbed by the recent spike in violence against journalists in Honduras following the attempted murder of a daily newspaper manager – the third attack on a media employee in the country in the past two weeks. Manuel Acosta was driving home in the capital Tegucigalpa yesterday […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today blasted an Ecuadorean court’s decision to jail a journalist and three executives of critical opposition daily El Universo for libelling President Rafael Correa, and to impose $40 million in fines against the defendants and the newspaper. A court in Guayaquil on Wednesday sentenced columnist Emilio Palacio and the three […]