His Excellency Tony Blair Prime Minister 10 Downing Street London UK Vienna, 10 September 1999   Your Excellency, The International Press Institute (IPI) is deeply concerned over the threat by a British court to jail Dublin-based reporter Ed Moloney unless he breaks rules of professional secrecy. Moloney, Northern Ireland editor of the Sunday Tribune in […]

H.E. Bacharuddin Jusuf Habibie President of the Republic of Indonesia Office of the President Jakarta Indonesia Vienna, 2 September 1999 Your Excellency, The International Press Institute (IPI) wishes to express its concern over the safety of journalists reporting on events in East Timor. In the latest violence, pro-Indonesian militiamen armed with automatic weapons and machetes […]

His Excellency Bülent Ecevit Prime Minister of the Republic of Turkey Prime Minister’s Office Ankara Turkey Vienna, 26 August 1999 Your Excellency, The International Press Institute (IPI), the global network of editors and media executives, condemns the banning of a Turkish television channel, Kanal 6, because of it coverage of last week’s devastating earthquake. We […]

His Excellency Andrés Pastrana President of Colombia Santafé de Bogotá Colombia Vienna, 16 August 1999 Your Excellency, The International Press Institute (IPI) strongly condemns the killing of popular Colombian journalist Jaime Garzón. On 13 August, Garzón, 39, a beloved satirist known for his scathing parodies of politicians, was gunned down by two unidentified assailants on […]