International Press Institute (IPI)

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.”

Despite cartoonist Xavier Bonilla’s public apology, 17 groups with reported ties to the government launched a complaint for alleged “socio-economic discrimination” in violation of Ecuador’s controversial Law on Communication.

Social media has proved to be an inestimably valuable tool for freedom of expression around the world, but journalists have reported facing verbal abuse, harassment, and cyberbullying on social media sites as a result of their work.

Journalist Moisés Sánchez Cerezo was found dead weeks after being kidnapped in Veracruz state. A former police officer claims the local mayor is behind Sánchez’s death.

The International Press Institute urges authorities in South Sudan to apprehend those behind an ambush attack last weekend on the two-car convoy of a local official that left five local journalists dead.

Journalists were threatened and violently prevented from conducting their work, the Freedom Foundation reported, and cameras and other journalists’ tools were also confiscated.

IPI Digital Media Coordinator Javier Luque spoke with Nabeel Rajab hours after the court announced his sentence.