According to information provided to IPI, on 19 June, the Board of Directors of the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), an organisation providing US congressional aid to countries that rule justly and encourage economic freedom, suspended Gambia’s suitability for assistance after “a pattern of actions inconsistent with MCC’s selection criteria.” In reaching its decision, the Board […]

H.E. Ivo Sanader Prime Minister of the Republic of Croatia Zagreb, Croatia Fax: +385 1 6303 022, 6303 019 H.E. Ivica Kirin Minister of Interior Affairs of the Republic of Croatia Zagreb, Croatia Fax: +385 1 6122 771 Vienna, 21 December 2005 Your Excellencies, The Vienna-based South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), a network of […]

The Vienna-based South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), a network of editors, media executives and leading journalists in South East Europe and an affiliate of the International Press Institute (IPI), is alarmed about the recent attack on a media house in Albania. According to information before SEEMO, on the night of 18 December, unknown persons […]

According to information provided to the International Press Institute (IPI), Ali Mohaqeq Nasab, editor of the monthly Haqooq-I-Zan (“Women’s Rights”) now faces the possibility of the death penalty for alleged blasphemy. In May, Haqooq-I-Zan published a series of essays that questioned the discrimination of women, as well as harsh penalties for criminals, including adulterers, and […]