The International Press Institute (IPI) last week presented its view to leading Guyanese government officials that criminal defamation laws are an affront to the values of a democratic society and should be repealed. In a meeting with IPI delegates, Attorney General Anil Nandlall expressly agreed that journalists “should not go to jail for practising their […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today condemned the attempted bombing of the headquarters of Yemen Shabab TV and al-Masdar newspaper and called upon authorities to investigation the attacks and bring the perpetrators to justice. A report from the Freedom Foundation in Yemen, which quoted Yemen Shabab TV and al-Masdar newspaper, stated that on Wednesday an […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today welcomed commitments made by the political leadership in Antigua and Barbuda to repeal criminal defamation – possibly as soon as May 3, World Press Freedom Day. In a meeting Monday with IPI delegates, Prime Minister Winston Baldwin Spencer agreed that criminal defamation laws have no place in a democracy. […]

As if it were not enough that journalists covering the Syrian conflict have been targeted for kidnap or attack, killed by bombs and threatened with their lives, their enemies have a new tactic: Using social media to put inflammatory words in their mouths and a price on their heads. On March 31, Kuwaiti Fahim Saqr, […]