The International Press Institute (IPI) today condemned alleged attempts by local officials to gag independent Lviv, Ukraine-based newspaper Express. The paper – reportedly the nation’s most widely-circulated Ukrainian language publication – accused a local governor of attempting to use commercial courts to close it and of later promising to relax pressure if the publication stopped […]

Outspoken and controversial political journalist Mário Randolfo Marques Lopes was kidnapped with his girlfriend, Maria Aparecida Guimarães, and ruthlessly executed yesterday at point blank range in Barra do Piraí, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Lopes and his girlfriend were seized Wednesday, reportedly by three men, who held the couple for 22 hours before taking them to […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) condemns this week’s conviction of two Ecuadorean journalists on charges of causing moral harm to President Rafael Correa. Christian Zurita and Juan Carlos Calderón were each ordered to pay US $1 million to the Ecuadorean leader, in addition to $100,000 to the president’s lawyers, because of their 2010 book “Big […]

Dunja Mijatovic, OSCE representative on freedom of the media, and Faith Pansy Tlakula, special rapporteur on freedom of expression and access to information of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR), are the latest additions to a stellar line-up of speakers at this year’s IPI World Congress to be held in Port of […]