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 […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) last week completed a two-day emergency press freedom mission to Jordan, as a direct response to the suspension of more than 200 online news websites by the Jordanian authorities. The move came just two weeks after IPI’s World Congress in Amman May 19-21, and appears to place Jordan at odds […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) and its affiliate, the South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), today condemned a campaign of repression targeting journalists covering ongoing protests in Turkey. IPI Press Freedom Manager Barbara Trionfi said: “We are deeply disturbed by accounts of numerous journalists being beaten, detained arbitrarily and forced to delete footage. We are […]