Prime Minister Jean Chrétien Office of the Prime Minister Ottawa Canada Vienna, 6 June 2000 Your Excellency, The International Press Institute (IPI), the global network of journalists and editors, wishes to express its concern to the Canadian government at the treatment of two Hong Kong journalists by the Vancouver police. On 27 May, journalists Lai […]

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 […]

His Excellency Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali President Republic of Tunisia c/o His Excellency The Ambassador to London Vienna, 31 May 2000 Your Excellency, The International Press Institute (IPI), the global network of editors and journalists, is deeply concerned at the Tunisian government’s readiness to extend retribution to family members of journalists, and its tolerance of […]

His Excellency Yasser Arafat President Palestinian National Authority Vienna, 31 May 2000 Your Excellency, The International Press Institute (IPI), the global network of editors and media executives, strongly condemns the arrest of Mr Fatih Barqawi, news director at the state radio station, Voice of Palestine, and the suspension of the Al-Nasr television station and the […]