His Excellency Mr. Boris Yeltsin President Moscow Russian Federation Vienna, 28 November 1994 Your Excellency, Over 40 days has passed since Dmitri Kholodov, a journalist working for Moscow’s most popular daily newspaper Moscovski Komsomolets, was killed in a bomb blast. Mr. Kholodov , who had been investigating mafia connections with officers in the Western Army […]

His Excellency Mr. Slobodan Milosevic President of the Republic of Serbia Office of the President Belgrade Republic of Serbia Vienna, 22 November 1994 Your Excellency, The International Press Institute (IPI) is deeply concerned about the threat to press freedom in Serbia posed by the Government’s war of attrition against the daily newspaper Borba. We are […]

His Excellency Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong Office of the Prime Minister Istana Annexe, Istana Singapore Vienna, 22 November 1994 Your Excellency, The International Press Institute (IPI) is most concerned about the legal action taken by the Republic of Singapore against an American professor and the International Herald Tribune for an opinion piece that criticised […]

His Excellency General Sani Abacha President and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces State House Abuja Nigeria Vienna, 11 November 1994 Your Excellency, The International Press Institute (IPI), protests most strongly against the recent seizure of Nobel prize-winning author Wole Soyinka’s United Nations passport and the travel ban imposed on him. We are informed that on […]