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Letter: IPI protests the shelling by the U.S. military of media hotel in Baghdad

The Honorable Donald H. Rumsfeld Secretary of Defense Office of the Secretary of Defense 1000 Defense Pentagon Washington, DC 20301-1000 USA Fax: +1-703-697 83 39 Vienna, 9 April 2003 Dear Secretary Rumsfeld, The International Press Institute (IPI), the global network of editors, media executives and leading journalists in 115 nations, protests in the strongest possible […]

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Letter: IPI concerned over delays in providing information on whereabouts of missing ITN crew

The Rt Hon Geoffrey Hoon MP Secretary of State for Defence Ministry of Defence Main Building, Whitehall London SW1A 2HB United Kingdom Fax: +44 207 218 1289 The Honorable Donald H. Rumsfeld Secretary of Defense Office of the Secretary of Defense 1000 Defense Pentagon Washington, DC 20301-1000 USA Fax: +1-703-697 83 39 Vienna, 20 May […]

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Journalists in Philippines brace for new president

Whenever Filipino journalist Raissa Robles posts about President-elect Rodrigo Duterte or the South China Sea on her blog, it collapses for reasons unknown to her. “That’s why I abstain from writing about those two topics,” Robles says in a phone interview with the International Press Institute (IPI). “Every time I do, my blog goes down, […]

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Kurdistan president’s office responds to press freedom criticism by famed correspondents

Just over a month ago, twenty-three year-old journalist Zardasht Othman was kidnapped and brutally murdered in the Kurdistan region of Iraq. His killers remain free. On 25 May, IPI published an open letter signed by eighteen foreign correspondents with long experience of covering Iraqi Kurdistan, who called on the president of the autonomous region, Massoud […]

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