H.E. Eduardo Alberto Duhalde President of the Republic General Secretariat to the Presidency Balcarce 50 1064 Buenos Aires Argentina Vienna, 3 October 2002 Your Excellency, The International Press Institute (IPI), the global network of editors, media executives and leading journalists, strongly condemns the decision of a federal judge to subpoena the telephone records of Thomas […]

CARACAS (25 September 2002) – The International Press Institute (IPI) and the Inter American Press Association (IAPA) noted with concern the serious deterioration of press freedom in Venezuela due to a climate of intimidation and hostility towards independent journalists and media outlets, as well as a legal and judicial system that threatens the free practice […]

The Prime Minister of Nepal, Mr. Sher Bahadur Deuba, today gave a commitment to an IPI Press Freedom Delegation that “the Government of Nepal has no intention to re-impose a nationwide State of Emergency”. This puts to rest speculations that the Government was about to take this measure in response to the recent spate of […]

H.E. Maawiya Ould Sid’Ahmed Taya President of the Islamic Republic of Mauritania Office of the President BP 184, Nouakchott Mauritania Vienna, 6 September 2002 Your Excellency, The International Press Institute (IPI), the global network of editors, media executives and leading journalists, strongly condemns the seizure of issue number 219 of El Qalem, an Arabic-language weekly […]