International Press Institute (IPI)

Lina Ejeilat, editor of the 7iber.com news site, spoke to the International Press Institute about Jordan’s Press and Publications Law and how it affects the future of 7iber.

Three of the four were violently murdered, with no clear evidence for why they were attacked or whether those responsible will be charged for their deaths.

The perception of increased media freedom must be made permanent, stress the delegates participating in an international mission to Sri Lanka.

How can ongoing legal changes in Burma lead to an atmosphere that promotes press freedom, rather than limiting it? David Kaye, the U.N. special rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression, and others will answer that question at the IPI’s 2015 World Congress.

Ecuador’s media regulator on Friday ordered the daily newspaper El Universo to issue a public apology over a political cartoon satirising a lawmaker from President Rafael Correa’s party.

Mayte Carrasco describes insults and threats after speaking about fundamentalists.

Juan Bolívar Díaz, Huchi Lora, Amelia Deschamps and Roberto Cavada, four of the country’s most influential television journalists received death threats from people who accuse them of being “anti-Dominican traitors” as a result of their criticism of government policies.

In a recent joint statement, over a dozen news outlets and 20 Georgian media freedom and human rights groups said the bill “carries a risk of unreasonably restricting freedom of expression and stifling criticism.”