H. E. Carlos Menem President of Argentina Casa Rosada Buenos Aires Argentina Vienna, 28 January 1997 Your Excellency, The International Press Institute (IPI), the global network of editors and media executives from newspapers, magazines, broadcasting organisations and news agencies in over 90 countries, strongly condemns the killing of José Luis Cabezas, a photographer for the […]

Read this statement in English. El Instituto Internacional de la Prensa (IPI, por sus siglas en inglés), escritores y miembros de la red de Intercambio Internacional por la Libertad de Expresión (IFEX) instan a todos los estados miembros, observadores permanentes y otros donantes potenciales de la OEA a que reconsideren su falta de apoyo económico […]

Robustly defending the “collective right” to self-expression, the Supreme Court of Argentina has upheld legislation establishing limits on the number of broadcasting licences a particular company could hold. The Oct. 29 ruling brings an end to a five-year legal battle between the Argentine government and the Grupo Clarín media conglomerate, which had argued that the […]

An Argentine court yesterday granted a last-minute injunction blocking the application of key parts of the country’s new media law, allowing media conglomerate Grupo Clarín to avoid government seizure of radio and television licenses in excess of limits contemplated by the law. The decision by the Federal Civil and Commercial Court extends a previous hold […]