Nepali journalist Amar Kshitij Bhandari was manhandled on Tuesday by a group of so-called “disqualified Maoist fighters” allegedly affiliated with the United Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) during a demonstration called by them in Rapti Zone, Mid-West Nepal. As part of Nepal’s peace process, the Nepalese army has sought to integrate Maoist fighters spread across […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today welcomed a Moscow court’s decision to end proceedings against a Russian journalist who was accused of divulging personal data after a newspaper identified a public official’s name and position in an article about corruption. The Moscow Khamovniki District Court yesterday terminated two administrative cases against the news agency RIA-Novosti […]

IPI Executive Director Alison Bethel McKenzie last week wrote a letter to Dominican Republic President Danilo Medina, urging the president to speed up reforms to the country’s press law after a second journalist was sentenced to prison for defamation in the country this year. That journalist, Melton Pineda, is currently planning to appeal a three-month […]

An $80,000 fine levied against an Ecuadorean magazine accused of spreading political propaganda constitutes a direct attack on freedom of expression, the International Press Institute (IPI) said today. Ecuador’s Electoral Arbitration Tribunal (TCE, according to its Spanish acronym) ruled last week that a May 4, 2011 editorial published by Vistazo magazine urging voters to reject […]