H.E. Rudolf Schuster President Bratislava Slovak Republic Fax: + 421 7 544 17 532 Vienna, 25 June 2001 Your Excellency, The International Press Institute (IPI), the global network of editors and media executives, is deeply concerned at charges of criminal defamation brought by Your Excellency against a Slovak journalist. According to IPI’s sources, Your Excellency […]

His Excellency Hosni Mubarak President Presidential Palace Cairo Egypt Vienna, 21 June 2001 Your Excellency, The International Press Institute (IPI), the global network of editors and media executives, strongly condemns the criminal charges brought against Mamduh Mahran, chief editor of the independent newspapers, Al-Nabaa and Akhir Khabar, and Wahid Ghazi, editor-in-chief of Al-Muwajaha newspaper. According […]

Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga President Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka Presidential Secretariat Colombo-1 Sri Lanka Fax: + 94 1 – 333 703 Vienna, 21 June 2001 Your Excellency, The International Press Institute (IPI), the global network of editors and media executives, is deeply worried about recent articles appearing in two state newspapers and an independent […]

His Excellency Bashar al-Assad President of Syria Presidential Palace Damascus Arab Republic of Syria Vienna, 21 June 2001 Your Excellency, The International Press Institute (IPI), the global network of editors and media executives, condemns in the strongest possible terms the abduction of Nizar Nayyouf, a journalist and human rights activist, by Syrian intelligence agents on […]