The International Press Institute (IPI) today expressed concern over reports of an escalation in online harassment of journalists in Trinidad and Tobago ahead of elections scheduled later this year. One Caribbean Media reported that a number of their journalists, many of them investigative reporters, and particularly female reporters, have been the subject of character attacks […]

Turkish authorities’ failure to safeguard – and, in some cases, their active steps to undermine – the right to share and receive information has led to serious deficiencies in the country’s democracy, placing its future at serious risk, a special report released today by the International Press Institute (IPI) concludes. The report, “Democracy at Risk” […]

Lea este artículo en español Since Spain’s Public Security Law, known as the “gag law”, took effect on June 30 last year, the number of court cases challenging the measure’s constitutionality or asserting that certain provisions violate fundamental human rights has proliferated. But despite disapproval of the law by a majority of the Spanish public […]

Read this feature in English Desde que la Ley de Seguridad Ciudadana, conocida como la “Ley Mordaza”, entrara en vigor el pasado 30 de junio, han proliferado las organizaciones que han denunciado ante distintos estamentos judiciales su inconstitucionalidad, para unos, o la vulneración de derechos humanos fundamentales en algunos de sus artículos, para otros. A […]