H.E. Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga President, Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka Presidential Secretariat Colombo Sri Lanka Vienna, 16 May 2000 Your Excellency, The International Press (IPI), the global network of editors and journalists, strongly urges you to rescind the public security regulations imposed on both the local and foreign media in Sri Lanka. Under the […]

In a letter to President Hafez al-Assad, IPI called on the Syrian government to exercise compassion and release the imprisoned journalist Nizar Nayouf. Nayouf is close to death in a Syrian military prison after suffering years of torture and denial of adequate medical care. He was arrested on 10 January 1992 and sentenced to ten […]

Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar Prime Minister’s Chancellery Madrid Spain Vienna, 10 May 2000 Your Excellency, The International Press Institute, the global network of editors and media executives, utterly condemns the brutal slaying of Jose Luis Lopez de la Calle of Spain’s El Mundo newspaper allegedly perpetrated by the Basque terrorist group ETA. Lopez de […]

His Excellency Zine El-Abdine Ben Ali President of the Republic of Tunisia Vienna, 3 May 2000 Your Excellency, The International Press Institute (IPI) strongly condemns the arrest of family members and supporters in order to intimidate and coerce journalists. On 26 April, Taoufik Ben Brick decided to call a halt to his 24-day old hunger […]