IPI Director David Dadge is speaking today at an event in Oviedo, Spain, hosted by the Press Association of Asturias in recognition of World Press Freedom Day and the Association’s 100th anniversary. The group consists of 300 journalists from the region of Asturias. Mr. Dadge’s speech, entitled “Why Information wants to be Free” is reproduced below. Ladies […]

Antonio Fontán Pérez, a staunch defender of the principles of free expression, who later became the first Spanish Senate President of the democracy he helped to restore, passed away on 14 January 2010, after a long illness. He was 86. Born in Sevilla in 1923, Fontán became an honorary life member of the International Press […]

Two Spanish journalists sentenced on 23 December 2009 to suspended jail terms of one year and nine months each for “revealing secrets” have appealed their criminal convictions at a Madrid penal court, Spanish newspaper El Mundo reported on Wednesday. Daniel Anido, director of ‘Ser’ radio broadcaster, and Rodolfo Irago, the station’s news director, received the suspended sentences […]

A Madrid prosecutor on Monday demanded a three-year prison term – and a three year ban on practising journalism – for El Mundo Deputy-Editor Antonio Rubio, who is accused of allegedly “discovering and revealing state secrets.” The charges stem from articles published in the Spanish daily on 31 May 2005 detailing confidential reports which an […]