The International Press Institute (IPI) today addressed an open letter to Dwayne Gibbs, Trinidad & Tobago’s Commissioner of Police, regarding recent intimidation tactics against journalists and media houses perpetrated by the police force. Earlier this week, the Anti-Corruption Investigations Bureau of Trinidad and Tobago conducted a raid on the offices of Newsday, searched a senior […]

Lea este artículo en español The International Press Institute (IPI) is gravely concerned at the decision on Wednesday by Ecuador’s National Court of Justice to uphold a lower court decision ordering El Universo newspaper to pay $40 million to Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa and sentencing the paper’s owners, brothers Carlos, César, and Nicolás Perez, to […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today condemned attacks yesterday on the offices of Turkish-language newspaper Zaman in Paris and in the German city of Cologne allegedly carried out by supporters of the banned Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK). Zaman reported that a group of nearly 15 PKK supporters wearing masks entered its Paris office and threatened […]

Police in the Dominican Republic last Friday used a SWAT team to raid the home and offices of a prominent journalist as part of an investigation into an alleged spying scandal targeting high-ranking public officials. The journalist in question, Guillermo Gómez, producer of the television program Aeromundo and owner of the digital newspaper El Siglo […]