Latest News on Journalist Safety and Impunity

Letter: Independent media harassed and intimidated

His Excellency President Robert Mugabe Office of the President Causeway, Harare Zimbabwe Fax: (+ 263 4) 728 799 / 708 820 / 734 644 Vienna, 6 October 2003 Your Excellency, The International Press Institute (IPI), the global network of editors, leading journalists and media executives, condemns the latest attempts by the Zimbabwean government to intimidate […]

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Letter: Offices of Novoye Vremye occupied by armed individuals

H.E. Vladimir Putin President The Kremlin Moscow Russia Fax: + 7 095 206 51 73 Vienna, 3 October 2003 Your Excellency, The International Press Institute (IPI), the global network of editors, media executives, and leading journalists, is concerned at the disturbing and untenable situation in which the oldest Russian magazine Novoye Vremye (“New Times”) has […]

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IPI calls on U.S. military to review investigation procedures into the deaths of journalists

The International Press Institute (IPI) called upon the U.S. military authorities to thoroughly review its investigation procedures into the deaths of journalists mistakenly killed by U.S. forces in Iraq. Rejecting the military’s findings, as reported by the Associated Press, which absolved the U.S. from any blame in the 17 August death of Reuters’ cameraman Mazen […]

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Letter: Disappearance of editor-in-chief

H.E. President Yahya A.J.J. Jammeh State House Banjul The Gambia Fax: +220 227 034 Vienna, 24 September 2003 Your Excellency, The International Press Institute (IPI), the global network of editors, leading journalists and media executives, wishes to express its concern at the disappearance of Abdoulie Sey, the editor-in-chief of the bi-weekly Independent newspaper. On the […]

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