The International Press Institute (IPI) today condemned the recent prison sentences handed out to three Italian journalists by a court in Milan and strongly urged Italian lawmakers to reform the country’s criminal defamation laws. Italian journalists Andrea Marcenaro, Giorgio Mulé and Riccardo Arena were each sentenced to prison time by the Court of Milan on […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today condemned an order sending a 79-year-old Italian magazine editor convicted of criminal libel to prison to serve a two-year sentence. Italian media reported that a prosecutor in the province of Catania on Sicily signed an order on Saturday to arrest Francesco Gangemi, editor of monthly magazine The Debate, after […]

Today marks one month since Myanmar’s military junta detained U.S. journalist Danny Fenster. The International Press Institute (IPI) is again calling for Fenster’s release, along with all other journalists being held by the Myanmar regime. Fenster was managing editor of Frontier Myanmar, a current affairs magazine based in Yangon, at the time of his detention. […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) called today on Turkish authorities to dismiss all charges against local journalist Ozan Kaplanoğlu who was sentenced earlier this month to almost two years in prison for reporting on a press release. Kaplanoğlu, the editor-in-chief of the online news site BursaMuhalif.com and a board member of the Bursa Association of Contemporary Journalists, […]