New OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatovic on Thursday released her first regular report to the OSCE Permanent Council, noting that in many OSCE member countries media freedom remains under threat. In opening remarks, Mijatovic highlighted the threats posed by criminal defamation and tight Internet control, as well as the cases of […]

The Gambian founder and managing director of Jollof News Online, Yusupha Cham, who lives in exile in Birmingham, UK, told IPI on Wednesday that he has received three emailed death threats since the beginning of the year. Copies of the emails were forwarded to the IPI Secretariat in Vienna. The first email, from a Hotmail […]

The debate on Internet censorship in China flared today with reports that Yahoo Email accounts of foreign journalists in the country had been hacked and blocked, or were otherwise rendered inaccessible. According to the Associated Press, several foreign correspondents based in China have reported receiving error messages when attempting to log into Yahoo Email accounts. […]

Miklos Haraszti will end his six-year term of office as the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media on 10 March 2010. Haraszti, a Hungarian writer, journalist, human rights advocate and university professor co-founded the Hungarian Democratic Opposition Movement and was editor of the Beszélo journal, which was influential in shaping Hungary’s transition to democracy. […]