IPI Executive Director Alison Bethel McKenzie opened the first of two sessions dedicated to oil wealth and poverty at IPI’s Oil Gas & Media Conference in Baku, Azerbaijan on Wednesday by noting that in many oil-rich countries populations remain devastatingly poor. “Why is no one reporting on what happens to the oil wealth?” Bethel McKenzie […]

A Cuban journalist who had been covering a sensitive cholera outbreak has been charged with defaming Fidel and Raúl Castro, the editor of one of Cuba’s leading independent news agencies said yesterday. In a message transmitted via the Háblalo sin miedo voice platform, Roberto Guerra Pérez of Hablemos Press said that Cuban authorities have charged […]

Deutsch The International Press Institute (IPI)’s German National Committee today condemned Belarusian police officers’ detention of a number of journalists on Tuesday and the officers’ reported beating of some of the journalists. RFE/RL reported that plainclothes police officers in Minsk detained journalists from Reuters, AP and Germany’s ZDF television – as well as journalists from […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today joined an international chorus of voices urging Ukraine to reject moves to re-criminalise defamation. Reuters reported that deputies from President Viktor Yanukovych’s Party of Regions and their allies in parliament on Tuesday gave preliminary approval to a draft law that would provide for up to five years imprisonment for […]