The International Press Institute (IPI) today urged the president of the Maldives to reject a widely criticised defamation bill that the Indian Ocean archipelago’s Parliament passed on Tuesday. The law would reportedly criminalise defamation, as well as communication that includes any gesture deemed to be against “any tenet of Islam”, Reuters reported. President Abdulla Yameen’s […]

Read this article in English El Instituto Internacional de la Prensa (IPI, por sus siglas en inglés) está consternado por la muerte del periodista colombiano Luis Peralta Cuéllar y pide a las autoridades que esclarezcan cuanto antes los hechos que rodearon su muerte. El suceso tuvo lugar el sábado, 14 de febrero de 2014, cuando […]

A Brazilian journalist who reportedly had complained to police about threats was shot dead Sunday evening outside his home just west of the country’s capital Brasilia. João Miranda do Carmo was killed when four gunmen who had called him to the gate outside his home in Santo Antônio do Descoberto, in Brazil’s central Goiás state, […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today condemned the on-air killing of a Brazilian radio host and called for Brazilian authorities to bring the perpetrators to justice. Gleydson Carvalho was shot five times by two gunmen while he presented a live show on August 6 in the northeastern city of Camocim, news reports said. Carvalho was […]