A bill to partially decriminalise defamation in Trinidad and Tobago received final parliamentary approval this week, the latest sign of growing momentum around the International Press Institute’s (IPI) Campaign to Repeal Criminal Defamation in the Caribbean. The Trinidad and Tobago Senate approved the bill on Tuesday, less than a month after passage in the House […]

The statement below was issued by the Tunisia Monitoring Group, a coalition of over 20 free expression and press freedom organizations including IPI that are grouped under the umbrella of the International Freedom of Expression eXchange (IFEX). IFEX-TMG concerned by attacks on journalists and academics Despite promises by Tunisia’s new government to uphold free expression, […]

Irish Deputy Prime Minister Eamon Gilmore declared today that protecting online freedom of expression will be given “top priority” during his country’s 2012 chairmanship of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). In remarks made to an OSCE Permanent Council meeting at the group’s Vienna headquarters, Mr. Eamon set out what he later […]

Gambian journalist Momodou S. Jallow of the privately-owned Daily News has been charged with libel in connection with a report in which a woman alleged that a local district chief abused his office in order to reward a lover. The story, entitled “Presidential Hajj Package Scandal; Chief Baldeh Allegedly Bribes Lover”, was published on 4 January, […]