Authorities in Zambia last week arrested two journalists with alleged ties to a controversial government watchdog website and charged them with sedition, local media reported. Thomas Zyambo, a journalist who was allegedly working for the online news source, the Zambian Watchdog, was arrested on July 9 along with another journalist and academic, Clayson Hamasaka, in […]

Sometimes making a little noise can make a big difference. That may have been the case yesterday in the Caribbean island nation of Grenada, where members of the upper house of Parliament, the Senate, have reportedly returned a controversial electronic defamation bill back to the lower house (House of Representatives) for further deliberations. IPI warmly […]

A year after becoming the first Caribbean country to decriminalise libel, Grenada last week appeared to take a step in the opposite direction after its lower house of Parliament passed a sweeping cyber-crimes bill that includes a provision for online defamation, the International Press Institute (IPI) said today. According to a copy of the Electronic […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) and its affiliate, the South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), today began a press freedom mission to Budapest to assess media freedom in Hungary following legislative changes in recent years. The mission, in which IPI and SEEMO are set to meet with Hungarian journalists and members of civil society, will […]