Hungarian journalist Attila Varga was waiting on a sidewalk one day when a car suddenly pulled up beside him. It did not contain a friend. “A person leaned out and shouted, ‘How dare you ban me, you motherfucker!’,” Varga recounted in a recent interview with the International Press Institute (IPI). Varga is one of three journalists […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today joined calls for Pakistan to lift the travel ban imposed on a leading newspaper columnist in the wake of his story on a confrontational meeting between leaders of the country’s civilian government and the military. Cyril Almeida, assistant editor of the English-language daily newspaper Dawn, learned on Monday that […]

H.E. Vladimir Putin President The Kremlin Moscow Russia Vienna, 27 July 2000 Your Excellency, The International Press Institute (IPI), the global network of editors and media executives, strongly condemns the killing of a Russian radio proprietor. According to IPI’ sources, the owner of the independent Vesna radio station, Sergei Novikov, 36, left the station, located […]

H.E. Ahmad Tejan Kabbah Office of the President Freetown Sierra Leone Fax: (+ 232-22) 230565 Vienna, 2 August 2005 Your Excellency, The International Press Institute (IPI), the global network of editors, media executives and leading journalists, strongly condemns the savage beating of For Di People editor Harry Yansaneh, which is said to have caused his […]