The International Press Institute (IPI) today expressed concern over recent developments in Turkey in which journalists were targeted with excessive prison sentences and the prime minister urged grieving families to sue his media critics. Turkish media reported last week that prosecutors were seeking 26 to 52 years behind bars for daily Taraf journalist Mehmet Baransu and […]

Read this article in English Un juez boliviano dictó, el pasado mes de mayo, una sentencia que obliga a un periodista y a la directora de la misma publicación a revelar las fuentes que utilizaron en la redacción de un artículo de investigación publicado recientemente. Ello, a pesar de que la vigente Ley de Imprenta […]

Lea esta historia en español A Bolivian judge earlier this month ordered a journalist and editor in chief* to reveal the sources behind a recent investigative article, despite provisions guaranteeing source confidentiality in the country’s press law. “A source has never been revealed in this country,” said Juan León Cornejo, president of the National Press Association […]

As the uprising against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad turned into a nationwide civil war in 2011, a group of university students gathered in a friend’s basement in Aleppo to write articles and design the cover of their new magazine, Rebel. The Syrian revolution was becoming increasingly violent, but the danger didn’t stop the students in […]