His Excellency Askar Akayev President of the Republic of Kyrgyzstan Office of the President Bishkek Kyrgyzstan Vienna, 13 August 1997 Your Excellency, The International Press Institute (IPI), the global network of editors and media executives from newspapers, magazines, broadcasting organisations and news agencies in over 100 countries, is most concerned about a recent decision by […]

H. E. Alexander Lukashenko President of the Republic of Belarus Minsk Belarus Vienna, 29 July 1997 Your Excellency, The International Press Institute (IPI) strongly condemns the detention of a Russian television crew by state authorities. On 22 July 1997, a three-man crew for Russian Public Television (ORT), headed by Minsk bureau chief Pavel Sheremet, was […]

H. E. Slobodan Milosevic President Belgrade Republic of Serbia Vienna, 21 July 1997 Your Excellency, The International Press Institute (IPI), is most concerned about reports that Serbian authorities have closed down six small private radio stations and a television channel in the town of Kraljevo. We understand that inspectors of the federal Telecommunications Ministry, accompanied […]

Prime Minister Mesut Yilmaz promised a joint delegation of foreign and Turkish journalists on Monday, 14 July, that his new government will take immediate steps to free imprisoned prize-winning editor Ocak Isik Yurtcu and other jailed newspaper editors and present a sweeping press law reform package to parliament later this year. The jailing of journalists […]