Read this article in English El Instituto Internacional de la Prensa (IPI, por sus siglas en inglés) está profundamente preocupado por la decisión que tomó el miércoles la Corte Nacional de Justicia de Ecuador ratificando la sentencia de primera y segunda instancia contra el diario El Universo. El fallo obliga al periódico a pagar 40 […]

Lea este artículo en español The International Press Institute (IPI) is gravely concerned at the decision on Wednesday by Ecuador’s National Court of Justice to uphold a lower court decision ordering El Universo newspaper to pay $40 million to Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa and sentencing the paper’s owners, brothers Carlos, César, and Nicolás Perez, to […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) condemns this week’s conviction of two Ecuadorean journalists on charges of causing moral harm to President Rafael Correa. Christian Zurita and Juan Carlos Calderón were each ordered to pay US $1 million to the Ecuadorean leader, in addition to $100,000 to the president’s lawyers, because of their 2010 book “Big […]

The Organisation of American States (OAS) Permanent Council yesterday adopted by consensus the proposals of a working group convened last June to strengthen the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR). But included among the non-binding proposals were three recommendations that threaten the reach and independence of the Special Rapporteurship for Freedom of Expression—a key bulwark […]