President Daniel Arap Moi Office of the President Harambee House Nairobi Kenya 13 June 2000 Your Excellency, The International Press Institute (IPI), the global network of editors and journalists, strongly condemns the attack made on the headquarters of Kenya’s biggest newspaper, the Daily Nation. On 12 June, Kenyan students attempted to burn down the Nation […]

His Excellency Abd ar-Rauf al-Rawabdeh Prime Minister of Jordan Office of the Prime Minister Amman Jordan 9 June 2000 Your Excellency, Over 100 days have now passed since the International Press Institute’s conference on “Freedom of Expression and the Media in Jordan” and, as promised at the meeting, I am taking this opportunity to remind […]

Prime Minister Jean Chrétien Office of the Prime Minister Ottawa Canada Vienna, 6 June 2000 Your Excellency, The International Press Institute (IPI), the global network of journalists and editors, wishes to express its concern to the Canadian government at the treatment of two Hong Kong journalists by the Vancouver police. On 27 May, journalists Lai […]

His Excellency Heydar Aliyev President of Azerbaijan Baku Azerbaijan Vienna, 5 June 2000 Your Excellency, The International Press Institute (IPI) is most concerned about the recent police attack on two journalists working for the Baku daily newspaper, “Bu gun”, and the raid on that newspaper’s editorial office. We are informed that reporter Revan Chinghizoglu and […]