His Excellency Heydar Aliyev President of Azerbaijan Baku Azerbaijan Vienna, 5 June 2000 Your Excellency, The International Press Institute (IPI) is most concerned about the recent police attack on two journalists working for the Baku daily newspaper, “Bu gun”, and the raid on that newspaper’s editorial office. We are informed that reporter Revan Chinghizoglu and […]

Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar Prime Minister’s Chancellery Madrid Spain Vienna, 10 May 2000 Your Excellency, The International Press Institute, the global network of editors and media executives, utterly condemns the brutal slaying of Jose Luis Lopez de la Calle of Spain’s El Mundo newspaper allegedly perpetrated by the Basque terrorist group ETA. Lopez de […]

His Excellency Zine El-Abdine Ben Ali President of the Republic of Tunisia Vienna, 3 May 2000 Your Excellency, The International Press Institute (IPI) strongly condemns the arrest of family members and supporters in order to intimidate and coerce journalists. On 26 April, Taoufik Ben Brick decided to call a halt to his 24-day old hunger […]

Werede Woldu Wolde Minister of Justice Ministry of Justice Addis Ababa Ethiopia 25 April 2000 Dear Minister, The International Press Institute (IPI) calls upon the Ethiopian police authorities to do everything within their power to bring to justice the culprits responsible for the break-in to the offices of the Ethiopian Free Press Journalists Association (EFJA) […]