At Court No.1 in Freetown, Sierra Leone, on 27 May, Magistrate Sam Margai charged managing editor Sydney B. Pratt and reporter Dennis Jones of the independent weekly Trumpet with seditious libel. After pleading not guilty to the charges, Pratt and Jones were released on bail of approximately US $16,000. The two journalists are to return […]

At the IPI Constitutional Board Meeting on Tuesday, 24 May 2005, in Nairobi, Kenya, the following Board Members were elected to the IPI Working Committee: Wilfred Kiboro, Group Chief Executive Officer, Nation Media Group, Kenya, was re-elected to a second term as Chairman of IPI. The new IPI Vice Chairmen are: Mark Damazer, Controller, BBC […]

According to information provided to IPI, three Polish journalists, Seweryn Blumsztajn, editor-in-chief of the Krakow edition of Gazeta Wyborcza, Jerzy Jurecki, publisher and journalist for Tygodnik Podhalanski, Wojciech Rogasin, a journalist for the Polish edition of Newsweek, and their interpreters Maciej Sarna and Marta Cichocka, as well as human rights activist Wojciech Modelski, were detained […]

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 […]