Dear Attorney-General, The International Press Institute (IPI), the global network of editors, leading journalists and media executives in over 120 countries, is writing to urge your office to bring those responsible for the 16 October 1975 murder in East Timor of five journalists, known collectively as the “Balibo Five”, to justice. In November 2007, a […]

The Vienna-based South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), a network of editors, media executives and leading journalists from South East Europe and an affiliate of the International Press Institute (IPI), appeals to Montenegrian ex-president and former prime minister Milo Djukanovic to drop his one million Euro lawsuit against Vijesti, Montenegro’s leading newspaper. SEEMO first spoke […]

The International Press Institute (IPI), the global network of editors, media executives and leading journalists in over 120 countries, is deeply concerned by the Arab League’s recent adoption of a charter regarding radio and satellite TV broadcasters. According to information before IPI, on 12 February, Arab information ministers meeting at the Arab League’s Cairo headquarters […]

The International Press Institute (IPI), the global network of editors, media executives and leading journalists in over 120 countries, criticises the recent deportation of Fiji Sun publisher Russell Hunter. According to information before IPI, the office of Fiji’s Defence and Immigration Minister issued a statement claiming that Hunter had acted in a manner that was […]