Im Vorfeld der österreichischen Wahlen zum Bundespräsidenten am 4. Dezember sehen sich die Anhänger eines Kandidaten Anschuldigungen ausgesetzt, Online-Übergriffe auf Journalisten zu verüben. Die Wahl ist ohnehin alles andere als Routine: Die Kandidaten der Volksparteien schafften es nicht in die Stichwahl und schieden im ersten Wahlgang im April aus. Übrig blieben ein nominell Unabhängiger und […]

Lesen Sie diesen Artikel auf Deutsch As Austria heads into the final days before a Dec. 4 presidential election, one contender’s backers increasingly face accusations of encouraging the online abuse of journalists. The allegation comes amid an election that has hardly been routine: candidates from Austria’s two traditionally strongest parties failed to make it past […]

Panamanian authorities should immediately release Dutch investigative journalist Okke Ornstein and abolish the crime of criminal defamation, Transparency International, the International Press Institute (IPI) and ARTICLE 19 said today. Ornstein is currently facing a 20 month prison sentence for reporting on alleged corruption through his blog. “Journalists must be allowed to do their jobs freely,” Cobus […]

“We will not stop fighting until you and your colleagues walk free”, IPI Executive Director Barbara Trionfi concluded in the letter she addressed directly to IPI Executive Board Member Kadri Gürsel and all journalists currently in jail in Turkey. The letter is intended to bring hope to all imprisoned journalists, and specifically to Kadri Gürsel, […]