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Interview: Editor of Turkey’s Nokta magazine discusses police raid over Erdogan cover photo

Turkish authorities on Monday raided the offices of the magazine Nokta and seized copies of the publication’s 18th issue, which featured a mocked-up photo of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on the cover.

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IPI launches new online media laws database

The International Press Institute (IPI) today launched a new online database aimed at cataloguing legal provisions affecting freedom of the press and expression on a country-by-country basis. The initial roll-out of the database features detailed information on defamation laws, parsed into 12 searchable categories, for countries in the European Union and the Caribbean, building on IPI’s […]

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Ecuador moves to shutter respected press freedom group

Lea este comunicado en español The International Press Institute (IPI) today denounced the Ecuadorean government’s intention to forcibly close Fundamedios, a civil society organisation that has dedicated itself to monitoring attacks on freedom of expression in the Latin American country for more than eight years. Ecuador’s National Communications Secretariat (SECOM), the country’s statutory media regulator, […]

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Nueva agresión de Ecuador contra la libertad de prensa: Fundamedios obligado a cerrar

Read this article in English El Instituto Internacional de la Prensa (IPI, por sus siglas en inglés) muestra su rechazo frontal contra la resolución emitida por el gobierno de Ecuador de cerrar Fundamedios, organización que se dedica al monitoreo de las agresiones contra la libertad de prensa en el país latinoamericano desde hace más de […]

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