His Excellency President Idriss Deby Office of the President Avenue Charles de Gaulle N’Djamena Republic of Chad Vienna, 16 November 2000 Your Excellency, The International Press Institute (IPI), the global network of editors and media executives, is deeply concerned about the criminal defamation charges brought against Yaldet Oulatar Bégoto, editor-in-chief of N’Djamena Hebdo, and Al […]

His Excellency Ali Abu Ragheb Prime Minister of Jordan Office of the Prime Minister Amman Jordan Fax: (009626) 464 2520 Vienna, 11 September 2000 Your Excellency, The International Press Institute (IPI), the global network of editors and media executives, strongly condemns the Jordan Press Association’s (JPA) expulsion of its secretary-general, Nidal Mansour, which effectively bars […]

His Excellency Ehud Barak Prime Minister Kiryat Ben-Gurion 3 Kaplan St, P.O. Box 187 91919 Jerusalem Israel By Fax: 2 (00972-2) 513 950 Vienna, 2 November, 2000 Your Excellency The International Press Institute (IPI), the global network of editors and media executives, strongly condemns the Israeli government’s decision to stop issuing permits for Palestinian journalists […]

In a 24 October 2000 letter to Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei (below), IPI condemned the “temporary” bans on three weekly newspapers, increasing the total of recently banned publications in Iran to more than twenty. According to IPI’s sources, the weeklies “Sobh-e Omid” (Morning of Hope), “Mihan” (Homeland) and “Sepideh-e Zendegi” (Dawn of Life) were banned […]