Togo authorities must allow the media to freely and safely cover the April 29 parliamentary and regional elections, the International Press Institute (IPI) said today. There is growing pressure on journalists in Togo ahead of the vote. This month, authorities arrested and expelled French journalist Thomas Dietrich. Additionally, the country’s media regulatory body suspended accreditation […]

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The Media Freedom Rapid Response consortium partners criticize the criminal defamation lawsuit filed by Interior Minister Kalin Stoyanov against investigative journalists Atanas Chobanov and Dimitar Stoyanov of the Bureau for Investigative Reporting and Data (BIRD). The undersigned organisations believe that the lawsuit is designed to silence legitimate investigative reporting and should be immediately withdrawn.  The […]

Read in English El próximo 28 de abril, se cumplen 12 años desde que la periodista Regina Martínez Pérez murió estrangulada en su domicilio. Sin embargo, las autoridades todavía no han conseguido resolver el crimen de forma creíble. El Instituto Internacional de la Prensa (IPI) urge al presidente Andrés Manuel Lopéz Obrador a que cumpla […]