The International Press Institute (IPI) today urged lawmakers in Trinidad and Tobago to take into account concerns by media stakeholders over a proposed cybercrime law. The country’s Parliament is preparing for a third reading on a wide-ranging online crimes bill that targets, among other things, unauthorised data access, cyber-bullying and identity fraud. However, media groups, […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today called on Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico to reverse a cabinet-wide decision to shut out a national newspaper at government press conferences in retaliation for the newspaper’s unflattering coverage. Members of Fico’s cabinet announced on Monday that they would ignore any questions from the newspaper Denník N on the basis […]

A defamation reform bill pending before the Lithuanian Parliament would constitute a welcome step in the right direction, but should be further amended to meet international standards, the International Press Institute (IPI) and Article 19 said today following a joint two-day mission to Lithuania. The bill, which passed Parliament’s Legal Affairs Committee last month, would […]

The killing of yet another journalist calls attention to Mexico’s alarming state of press freedom, the International Press Institute (IPI) said today. Reporter and radio presenter Armando Saldaña Morales, 53 was found dead near the bank of a stream in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca on May 4. According to local newspapers, he was […]