IAPA asks to identify those responsible for a new attack against the press in Chile The facilities of the newspaper El Líder, from the town of San Antonio in the Valparaíso region and belonging to the El Mercurio regional media network, were almost entirely destroyed by protesters against the national government's economic policies.
The IAPA welcomes ruling that protects journalists from criminal penalties and million-dollar civil penalties This ruling that reaffirms the inter-American record in favor of the decriminalization of defamation lawsuits; against journalists and protects them from paying compensation that goes beyond its economic reality.
IAPA Report: Dismal future projected for freedom of expression in Cuba Miami (November 11, 2009). The IAPA's country report on Cuba, presented during its 65th General Assembly that concluded yesterday in Buenos Aires, defined the outlook for Cuban journalism and freedom of expression as bleak and marked by political stagnation, the economic crisis, an increase in repression against independent journalists (102 acts of repression since April) and government control preventing free access to the Internet. The number of journalists in jail increased to 27 with sentences ranging from one to 28 years, and the police persecution of more than 70 independent journalists who are active in the country, has been extended to the growing movement of bloggers who defy state control on information and use of the Internet.
Strong call for platforms to pay media for contents emerges at the UNESCO meeting in Uruguay On World Press Freedom Day
