International Press Institute (IPI)

IFEX members call on Prime Minister Trudeau to put human rights, especially free expression and press freedom, at the heart of the Canada-China relationship.

Journalists have been denied access to courts in the southern Indian state of Kerala for months and must rely on information provided by public relations officers.

“I am really worried that this sentence will prohibit other journalists from writing freely and force them to censorship themselves,” journalist Stratis Balaskas says.

“If Tayseer is guilty of a known crime, he should be given a fair trial. Otherwise, he should be immediately released,” said Amman-based journalist and IPI Executive Board Member Daoud Kuttab.

The Himalayan nation of Bhutan, known for its seclusion policies and Gross National Happiness index, has given a Facebook user a very unhappy choice: Pay the equivalent of 10 years’ salary or go to jail.

As threats and abuses escalate, another journalist is forced to escape one of Mexico’s most dangerous states for journalists.

A “New York Times” reporter should not be forced to handover materials about her jailhouse interview with the suspect in the 1991 murder of a toddler, nearly 60 news media outlets, journalists’ associations and press freedom defenders argued.

IFEX members protest the impact on free expression of the overly broad bill, adopted on 12 August.