Hundreds of demonstrators rallied Saturday in Kiev to protest against moves to silence independent Ukrainian broadcaster TVi ahead of parliamentary elections on Oct. 28. AP reported that 1,500 people gathered in the centre of Ukraine’s capital in support of the broadcaster after the country’s leading cable television provider, Volia, on Wednesday transferred TVi’s signal to […]

A closure order against Venezuelan weekly newspaper Sexto Poder was revoked yesterday, after a week of domestic and international protest. Pedro Arangúren, a legal representative of staff from the media outlet, told the local press that the journalists would be in charge of the publication from now on, since its director, Leocenis García, is still […]

Colombian reporter Mary Luz Avendaño has been forced to leave Colombia due to threats against her life, according toThe Foundation for Freedom of the Press (FLIP), which reported this week that she had fled the country for an indefinite period of time. Avendaño worked as the correspondent of El Espectador newspaper in Medellín, in the […]

The joint open letter below was drafted at the initiative of the Steering Committee of the Israeli Palestinian Journalists Forum (IPI-IPJF) of the International Press Institute, the global free media network based in Vienna, Austria.  The IPI-IPJF, which is comprised of journalists from Israel and the Palestinian Territories, met for the first time in Vienna, […]