His Excellency Slobodan Milosevic President of Yugoslavia Belgrade Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Vienna, 26 April 1999 Your Excellency, The International Press Institute (IPI), the global network of editors and media executives, is most concerned for the safety of Pit Schnitzler, a German television correspondent, who is currently being detained by the authorities in Yugoslavia. Pit […]

His Excellency Slobodan Milosevic President of Yugoslavia Belgrade Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Vienna, 7 April 1999 Your Excellency, The International Press Institute (IPI), the global network of editors and media executives, condemns the detention of two Spanish television correspondents and a Dutch freelance photographer in Kosovo. We are informed that Jon Sistiaga Escudero and Bernabe […]

His Excellency Slobodan Milosevic President of Yugoslavia Belgrade Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Vienna, 12 April 1999 Your Excellency, The International Press Institute (IPI) strongly condemns the killing of a prominent publisher, Slavko Curuvija, in Belgrade. We are informed that unidentified gunmen shot and killed Mr. Curuvija, the owner of an independent daily newspaper, Dnevni Telegraf, […]

His Excellency Aslan Maskhadov President Grozny Chechen Republic Russian Federation Vienna, 30 March 1999 Your Excellency, The International Press Institute strongly condemns the kidnapping of a correspondent working for the Itar-Tass news agency. According to our sources, unidentified armed men broke into the house of Said Isayev, a Chechen who has worked for the Russian […]