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On one-year sentencing anniversary, IPI calls for release of Sierra Leonean journalist Paul Kamara

Despite numerous efforts by the international community to convince the Sierra Leonean government to release Paul Kamara, the For Di People editor and publisher remains in prison. On 5 October 2004, Justice A.B. Rashid found Paul Kamara, editor and publisher of the independent daily For Di People, guilty on two counts of seditious libel. Rashid […]

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Letter: IPI/SEEMO welcome the decision of the Macedonian Court of Appeals in the case of Raymonda Malecka

H.E. Branko Crvenkovski President of the Republic of Macedonia Skopje, Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) Fax: +389 2 3112 147 H.E. Ljupco Jordanovski President of the Assembly of the Republic of Macedonia Skopje, Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) Fax: +389 2 3113 643 H.E. Vlado Buckovski Prime Minister of the Republic of Macedonia Skopje, Republic of Macedonia […]

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Letter: IPI/SEEMO alarmed about the recent assault on sports journalist in Greece

H.E. Jorgos Voulgarakis Minister of Public Order Athens, Greece Fax: +30 210 691 2661, +30 210 692 0487, +30 210 692 9764 H.E. Jorgos Orfanos Derputy Minister of Culture (responsible for Sports) Athens, Greece Fax:+30 210 820 1373, +30 210 324 6085, +30 210 322 8831 Vienna, 3 October 2005 Your Excellencies, The Vienna-based South […]

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Letter: IPI worried about recent civil legal actions against the media in Poland

H.E. Aleksander Kwasniewski President of the Republic of Poland Kancelaria Prezydenta RP ul. Wiejska 10 00-902 Warsaw Poland Fax: (+ 4822) 695 12 53 Vienna, 29 September 2005 Your Excellency, The International Press Institute (IPI), the global network of editors, media executives and leading journalists in over 112 countries, is concerned that a number of […]

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