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Letter: American journalist goes to trial in Turkey over controversial article

H. E. Tansu Ciller Prime Minister of Turkey Prime Minister’s Office Ankara Turkey Vienna, 22 September 1995 Your Excellency, The International Press Institute (IPI), a global network of editors and media executives from newspapers, magazines, broadcasting organisations and news agencies in 85 countries, strongly condemns the campaign of legal harassment your government is waging against […]

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Letter: Associated Press employees in Pakistan dismissed from duties

His Excellency Benazir Bhutto Prime Minster of Pakistan Office of the Prime Minister Islamabad Islamic Republic of Pakistan Vienna, 15 September1995 Your Excellency, The International Press Institute (IPI), a global network of editors and media executives from newspapers, magazines, broadcasting organisations and news agencies in 85 countries, is most concerned about the recent dismissal and […]

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Letter: Journalists sentenced to 32 months in prison in Indonesia

H. E. Gen. Haji Mohamed Suharto President of the Republic of Indonesia Office of the President Jakarta Indonesia Vienna, 4 September 1995 Your Excellency, The International Press Institute (IPI), strongly condemns the sentencing on 1 September 1995 of two members of the Alliance of Independent Journalists (AJI) to prison terms of 32 months each. We […]

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Letter: Journalist dies while in police detention in Turkey

H. E. Tansu Ciller Prime Minister of Turkey Prime Minister’s Office Ankara Turkey Vienna, 1 September 1995 Your Excellency, The International Press Institute (IPI) strongly condemns the death in police detention of Sayfettin Tepe, a journalist for the recently banned pro-Kurdish newspaper Yeni Politika. We are informed that on 22 August 1995 Mr. Tepe was […]

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