An Azeri court on Wednesday sentenced an online sports writer and a website project head to one year and six month prison terms respectively, for allegedly “insulting” the president of a local football club and accusing him of “committing a grave crime,” the Baku-based media freedom organisation the Institute for Reporter Freedom and Safety (IRFS) […]

Lawyers representing Slovene daily Dnevnik on Wednesday received notification of a Ljubljana Court of Appeal decision overturning a gag order imposed on the newspaper earlier this year. The gag order, implemented on 6 August, followed articles printed in Dnevnik in July suggesting an Italian businessman’s involvement in corruption. Lawyers representing the businessman claimed that the newspaper had damaged his […]

A press freedom protest organised by the National Federation of the Italian Press, in the Italian capital Rome on Saturday, and which according to the organisers drew over 300,000 participants, was on the same day criticised by Italian public broadcaster Rai 1. In its 8 pm news show, the broadcaster showed an “editorial” in which […]

IPI Press Freedom Manager Anthony Mills visited the EU Commission last week to discuss with various EU officials IPI’s Vienna Declaration on Terrorism, Media and the Law. He was accompanied by the lead drafter of the declaration, Toby Mendel, now executive director of the Canada-based Center for Law and Democracy and formerly senior director for […]