The International Press Institute today expressed serious concern over Friday’s passage of the Law on Communications by the Ecuadorian National Assembly. Among its most alarming provisions, is the creation of a regulatory council with excessive authority which, given the law’s vague provisions, IPI believes could be used by the administration of President Rafael Correa to further target journalists.  […]

The executive board of the International Press Institute (IPI) this week delivered formal letters to Jordan’s king and prime minister expressing concern over the Jordanian government’s closure of nearly 300 news websites earlier this week. The move, characterised in the letters as a “step backward for press freedom and democracy” in Jordan, came less than […]

The International Press Institute’s (IPI) German National Committee issued a statement today “vehemently” protesting the Greek government’s decision to shutter Greece’s public broadcaster, ERT. Calling the decision “indefensible”, German National Committee Chair and former IPI Chairman Carl-Eugen Eberle said the closure constituted an unacceptable government intervention into broadcasting freedom “of the kind one would see […]

The murder on Monday of a newspaper editor in a suburb of Rio de Janeiro may have been an attempt to silence the paper’s “combative” reporting, Brazilian police investigators said yesterday, according to media reports. José Roberto Ornelas de Lemos was shot 44 times while drinking at a local bar in Nova Iguaçu, the second-largest […]