His Excellency Alberto Fujimori President of the Republic of Peru Lima Peru Vienna, 9 June 1999 Your Excellency, The International Press Institute (IPI) strongly condemns the brutal killing of a radio journalist in northern Peru. According to our sources, Félix Haro Rodriguez, a photographer and host of a programme broadcast on Radio 1160’s affiliate in […]

The International Press Institute (IPI), a global network of editors, media executives and leading journalists, has urged Mexico’s newly inaugurated president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, to end the impunity with which journalists are being killed in the country. In a letter, Deputy Director Scott Griffen urged President Obrador to order law enforcement agencies to expedite […]

H. E. Ernesto Samper Pizano President of Colombia Santafé de Bogotá Vienna, 25 February 1998 Your Excellency, The International Press Institute (IPI) strongly condemns the killing of a Colombian journalist, Oscar García Calderon. We are informed that García, a journalist with the Bogotá daily El Espectador, was murdered on 22 February 1998, shortly after leaving […]

Whenever Filipino journalist Raissa Robles posts about President-elect Rodrigo Duterte or the South China Sea on her blog, it collapses for reasons unknown to her. “That’s why I abstain from writing about those two topics,” Robles says in a phone interview with the International Press Institute (IPI). “Every time I do, my blog goes down, […]