Lawyers representing embattled former FIFA Vice President Jack Warner on Friday notified a Trinidadian journalist, Lasana Liburd, that their client planned to sue for libel and defamation over a series of articles linking Warner to missing emergency aid money for Haiti. As the International Press Institute (IPI) reported last week, Liburd had followed up on […]

Read in English El presidente ecuatoriano, Rafael Correa, anunció el lunes que ha concedido indultos en dos casos de alto perfil relacionados con injuria y los medios de comunicación. En uno, el diario El Universo había sido condenado a pagar 40 millones de dólares en daños y perjuicios mientras sus tres directores, así como un […]

Lea este artículo en español Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa announced on Monday that he had granted pardons in two high-profile libel cases involving the media. In one, El Universo newspaper had been ordered to pay $40 million in damages and its three directors and a former columnist had been sentenced to three years in prison, […]

Lea en español Two journalists – a brother and sister – were found strangled to death on Saturday morning near their home in El Alto, Bolivia, just outside the country’s capital, La Paz. The bodies of Verónica Peñasco Layme, communications director for Radio San Gabriel, and Victor Hugo Layme, a journalist with Radio Pachamama, were […]