VIENNA, CMC – The Vienna-based International Press Institute (IPI) Monday said that defamation laws remain widespread across the Caribbean that could even lead to imprisonment. IPI said that it carried out a comprehensive legal review of the situation in the region and that “every independent state considered geographically or culturally part of the Caribbean maintains some form of criminal defamation that could result in imprisonment”. It said of the 16 countries, Antigua and Barbuda, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Grenada, and Haiti, have seen journalists criminally prosecuted for defamation within the last 15 years.
