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Speakers at IPI event urge states to uphold press preedom in face of terrorism

While celebrating the first ten years of the International Press Institute’s (IPI’s) headquarters in Vienna, Austria on 20-24 November, speakers highlighted the need for States around the world to uphold fundamental human rights in the fight against terrorism. Speaking at the Thursday luncheon in the Hotel Intercontinental, on 21 November, Freimut Duve, the Free Media […]

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Letter: Coordinating Committee worried about amendments to Media Law

COMMONWEALTH PRESS UNION INTER AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF BROADCASTING INTERNATIONAL PRESS INSTITUTE NORTH AMERICAN BROADCASTERS ASSOCIATION WORLD ASSOCIATION OF NEWSPAPERS WORLD PRESS FREEDOM COMMITTEE H.E. Vladimir V. Putin President The Kremlin Moscow, Russia Fax: + 7095 206 5173 21 November 2002 Your Excellency, Members of the Coordinating Committee of Press Freedom Organizations, present […]

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Letter: Detained journalist begins hunger strike

His Excellency Nursultan Nazarbayev President Office of the President Mira 11 473000 Astana Kazakhstan Vienna, 11 November 2002 Your Excellency, The International Press Institute (IPI), the global network of editors, media executives and leading journalists, strongly condemns the detention of Sergei Duvanov, editor of the Bulletin of the International Bureau for Human Rights and Rule […]

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Letter: Journalist arrested and questioned after attending IFEX meeting

His Excellency Lieutenant General Omar Hassan al-Bashir President of the Republic of Sudan President’s Palace PO Box 281, Khartoum, Sudan Fax: + 24911 783223 Vienna, 9 October 2002 Your Excellency The International Press Institute (IPI), the global network of editors, media executives and leading journalists, is deeply disturbed by the state of Sudan’s attempts to […]

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