Following a three-day mission to Suriname as part of a six-country mission to the Caribbean, the International Press Institute (IPI) said today it looks forward to working with the Surinamese government on a legislative package that would decriminalise libel and insult as well as institute self-regulatory mechanisms to oversee media standards in the country. In […]

German freelance journalists Thomas Datt and Arndt Ginzel could have been forgiven for assuming that their 2010 criminal trial for defamation would end in an acquittal. The application of Germany’s criminal libel provisions to journalists, as commentators observed, was itself already so unusual that the possibility of an actual conviction must have seemed utterly inconceivable. […]

The German National Committee of the International Press Institute (IPI) yesterday spoke out against the conviction of numerous Turkish journalists in the alleged “Ergenekon” coup plot case. The committee’s chairman, former IPI Executive Board Chairman Prof. Dr. Carl-Eugen Eberle, said in a statement that the convictions raised the spectre of continued intimidation of journalists that […]

The International Press Institute’s (IPI) German National Committee issued a statement today “vehemently” protesting the Greek government’s decision to shutter Greece’s public broadcaster, ERT. Calling the decision “indefensible”, German National Committee Chair and former IPI Chairman Carl-Eugen Eberle said the closure constituted an unacceptable government intervention into broadcasting freedom “of the kind one would see […]