A report released today by the International Press Institute (IPI) following its April mission to five Caribbean countries urges governments to follow through on commitments received during IPI’s visit to repeal archaic criminal defamation laws. During a nearly three-week long mission, IPI delegates met with representatives of government, law enforcement, media, and civil society in Antigua […]

Turkish free expression groups, gathering in Istanbul Wednesday on the 105th anniversary of the country’s official abolition of censorship, took the Justice and Development Party (AKP)-led government to task for a continuing decline in press freedom. The second Congress of the Freedom for Journalists Platform (GOP) – an umbrella group representing local and national free […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) urges authorities in Honduras to thoroughly investigate a brutal attack on a television journalist and bring those responsible to justice. According to local reports, Joel Coca, 34, correspondent for Canal 11 and coordinator for the “Más Noticias” (More News) television program on the MultiCable television station, was attacked by two […]

International Press Institute (IPI) Senior Press Freedom Adviser Steven M. Ellis and South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO) Secretary General Oliver Vujovic travelled to Istanbul this week to speak before the second Congress of the Freedom for Journalists Platform (Gazetecilere Özgürlük Platformu – GÖP), an umbrella group representing press freedom and free expression groups across […]