Journalists in Arab countries are facing mounting challenges – kidnappings, assassinations and imprisonment amongst them – Nidal Mansour said the other day in opening the third Arab Forum for Media Freedom Defenders, or MFD. Mansour heads the Center for Defending Freedom of Journalists, an Amman group that documents efforts to subvert the news media. One […]

Read this article in English La tensión ha crecido en las últimas semanas en Perú dado los recientes reportes de amenazadas, reclamos de persecución y ataques físicos contra periodistas. Fiel reflejo de dicha tensión es el reciente atentado contra Yofre López Sifuentes, director y periodista de la publicación en línea “Barranca.pe”. En lo que va […]

Lea esta historia en español Tensions have been rising over the last few weeks in Peru with reports of threats, harassment claims and physical attacks against journalists, culminating in the recent bombing of the home of news site director Yofre López Sifuentes. (Version In the first four months of 2014, the National Association of Journalists of […]

With elections behind him, South African President Jacob Zuma should underscore his commitment to media freedom by calling for a thorough legal review of legislation that could restrict reporters’ access to sensitive public information, the International Press Institute (IPI) said today. IPI, which held its annual World Congress in South Africa less than a month […]