Latest News on Journalist Safety and Impunity

Letter: Editor of Egyptian opposition newspaper attacked

H. E. Muhammad Hosni Mubarak President of the Arab Republic of Egypt Office of the President Oruba Palace Heliopolis, Cairo Egypt Vienna, 3 August 1995 Your Excellency, The International Press Institute (IPI), a global network of editors and media executives from newspapers, magazines, broadcasting organisations and news agencies in 85 countries, strongly condemns the recent […]

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Letter: Journalist stabbed in Pakistan after receiving threatening phone calls

His Excellency Benazir Bhutto Prime Minster of Pakistan Office of the Prime Minister Islamabad Islamic Republic of Pakistan Vienna, 6 June 1995 Your Excellency, The International Press Institute (IPI), a global network of editors and media executives from newspapers, magazines, broadcasting organisations and news agencies in 85 countries, strongly condemns the stabbing of a journalist […]

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Letter: Newspaper offices and staff violently attacked in Mauritius

H. E. Sir Anerood Jugnauth Prime Minister Office of the Prime Minister Government House Port Louis Mauritius Vienna, 4 May 1995 Your Excellency, The International Press Institute (IPI) is most concerned about the threat to press freedom in Mauritius posed by recent attacks on the Independent and its editor-in-chief Mr. Namassiwayam Ramalingum. We are informed […]

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Letter: Ukrainian editor brutally murdered

H. E. Mr. Leonid Kuchma President of the Republic of the Ukraine Kiev Ukraine Vienna, 20 April 1995 Your Excellency, The International Press Institute (IPI) strongly condemns the brutal murder of Mr. Vladimir Ivanov, editor-in-chief of the Crimean daily Slava Sevastopolya. Mr. Ivanov, one of Crimea’s most prominent journalists, was seriously injured on 14 April […]

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