Danish lawmakers should repeal the country’s outdated criminal blasphemy law, the International Press Institute (IPI) said today. Art. 140 of the Danish Criminal Code sanctions “mocking a person’s religion or the doctrine of a faith” with up to four months in prison. The provision had fallen out of use in recent years, but in February […]

Last Sunday, Turkish voters narrowly approved constitutional changes that observers fear will lead to authoritarian rule under President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. While international election observers have criticised technical aspects of the vote, Erdoğan’s crackdown on the press – including the jailing of at least 150 journalists – and nurturing of a state propaganda machine had […]

Tanzanian President John Magufuli’s ominous warning to journalists last month that press freedom had “limits” following a sequence of events that led to the firing of his information minister has raised new concerns about authoritarianism in the east African republic. Over the course of Magufuli’s nearly 18 months in office, newspapers have been shuttered, opposition rallies […]

Lea este artículo en Español. Monday’s murder of journalist Luciano Rivera Salgado in Rosarito, Mexico on the two-year anniversary of the shocking killing of photojournalist Rubén Espinosa and four activists in Mexico City highlights, again, the bitter harvest of the country’s ongoing culture of impunity for crimes against journalists. Local news media reported that Rivera, […]