H.E. Leonid Kuchma President Office of the President Vul. Bankova 11 252005 Kiev Ukraine Fax: +380-44-293 10 01 / 293 73 64 / 291 61 61 Vienna, 17 December 2003 Your Excellency, The International Press Institute (IPI), the global network of editors, media executives, and leading journalists in over 120 countries, is deeply concerned about […]

H.E. Gloria Macapagal Arroyo President of the Philippines Office of the President Makati City Republic of the Philippines Fax: (+ 632) 812 1140 Vienna, 31 May 2001 Your Excellency, The International Press Institute (IPI), the global network of editors and media executives, strongly condemns the killing of a radio journalist in the Philippines. According to […]

Hungarian journalist Attila Varga was waiting on a sidewalk one day when a car suddenly pulled up beside him. It did not contain a friend. “A person leaned out and shouted, ‘How dare you ban me, you motherfucker!’,” Varga recounted in a recent interview with the International Press Institute (IPI). Varga is one of three journalists […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today joined calls for Pakistan to lift the travel ban imposed on a leading newspaper columnist in the wake of his story on a confrontational meeting between leaders of the country’s civilian government and the military. Cyril Almeida, assistant editor of the English-language daily newspaper Dawn, learned on Monday that […]