The International Press Institute (IPI) today urged the Indonesian authorities to conduct a swift and comprehensive investigation into the violent attack on journalist Normila Sari Wahyuni on Sunday, March 3. Wahyuni, a reporter for Paser TV, a channel that airs locally in the Paser region, was attacked as she reported on a land dispute in […]

The following is a statement signed by over 30 IFEX members and initiated by the International Press Institute (IPI) that is directed at member states of the Organisation of American States (OAS).  The original link can be found here.  To read IPI’s full report on the efforts to undermine the Special Rapporteur, click here. IFEX […]

On Feb. 27, a news crew with the German public television channel ARD was attacked by unidentified individuals with baseball bats and subsequently forced into a car chase in China’s northern province of Hebei. The crew, which included the director of the ARD’s Beijing office, Christine Adelhardt, two other German reporters and two Chinese staff […]

An appellate court in the Dominican Republic yesterday threw out the conviction of a journalist who had been sentenced to three months in prison for defamation last September. A three-judge panel of the Appeals Court for the National District (Santo Domingo) ordered a retrial in the case of Melton Pineda, who had been found guilty […]