Over the past several years, a dire press-freedom situation has emerged in Latin America––now the most dangerous region in the world for journalists, with 105 media workers killed there since 2008, according to IPI’s Death Watch. In addition to the rising death toll, the number of death threats and instances of physical aggression against members […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today blasted an Ecuadorean court’s decision to jail a journalist and three executives of critical opposition daily El Universo for libelling President Rafael Correa, and to impose $40 million in fines against the defendants and the newspaper. A court in Guayaquil on Wednesday sentenced columnist Emilio Palacio and the three […]

The National Union of Journalists (UNP) in Ecuador is calling on the country’s National Assembly to hold a final debate on a draft Organic Law on Communication (Ley Organica de Comunication) before it is passed. The journalists’ union recently presented a 15-page document to authorities calling for more debate on the proposed communications act, which […]

Journalists marched and radio stations fell silent in Ecuador yesterday in protest against a government-backed communications bill the media has described as a “gag law,” according to local reports. The draft Ley Orgánica de Comunicación (Organic Law on Communication), delivered to the National Assembly’s Secretary-General on Saturday and scheduled for debate in the Assembly on 10 December, […]