H.E. Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de Leon President Palacio Nacional Mexico City DF Mexico Vienna, 11 April 2000 Your Excellency, The International Press Institute (IPI) strongly condemns the killing of Pablo Pineda, a reporter and photographer for La Opinion newspaper in the border city of Matamoros, Tamaulipas. On Sunday, April 9, U.S. Border Patrol agents discovered […]

His Excellency Vladimir Putin Acting President of the Russian Federation Moscow Russia Vienna, 28 January 2000 Your Excellency, On behalf of the International Press Institute – the global network of editors and media executives dedicated to promoting and defending freedom of the press – I am writing to you to express our deep concern about […]

During 1999 more than 80 journalists and media staff were killed or murdered making it one of the worst years on record says the International Federation of Journalists and the International Press Institute. “In a century of unremitting slaughter, 1999 has been an infamous year,” said Aidan White, General Secretary of the IFJ. “Once again […]

An IPI delegation despatched to Lusaka, Zambia (November 23-25) identified several issues which need to be urgently addressed if freedom of expression and freedom of the press are to be truly respected in Zambia. The members of the delegation – Wangethi Mwangi, Group Managing Editor of The Nation in Kenya, and Peter Goff, Advisor with […]