The Vienna-based South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), a network of editors, media executives and leading journalists in South East Europe and an affiliate of the International Press Institute (IPI), is alarmed at the recent attack by the Mayor of Korca on a journalist in Albania. According to information before SEEMO, on 26 June, Robert […]

Hon. Amos Wako Attorney General State Law Office Sheria House P O Box 40112 Nairobi Kenya Fax: +254 020 211082 Vienna, 20 May 2005 Your Excellency, The International Press Institute (IPI), the global network of editors, leading journalists and media executives in over 120 countries, is writing to express its concern about the decision to […]

Two members of the Free Media Movement (FMM), an independent group of editors and leading journalists committed to freedom of expression and opinion, have received death threats from a group calling itself “Theraputtabhaya force”. According to information provided to the International Press Institute (IPI), FMM convenor and editor-in-chief of the Ravaya newspaper, Victor Ivan, and […]

Ulugbek Haidarov, a journalist and human rights activist, was severely beaten on 23 April in the Jizzakh region, central Uzbekistan. According to IPI’s information, an unidentified assailant was waiting for Haidarov outside his home on the evening of 23 April. During the attack one of Haidarov’s collar-bones was broken and he was later hospitalised. Haidarov […]