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IPI/SEEMO demands reform of Hague Tribunal’s Rule 77

At a meeting of over 60 editors-in-chief, leading journalists and media executives from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, and Serbia and Montenegro, on 13 October 2005 in Opatija, Croatia, the International Press Institute (IPI) and its affiliate, the South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), expressed their support for the actions taken by the Organisation for Security […]

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IPI calls on Nepalese authorities to rescind media ordinance

The International Press Institute (IPI), the global network of editors, leading journalists and media executives in over 112 countries, condemns in the strongest possible terms the severe restrictions on press freedom included in the “Ordinance Amending some of the Nepal Act related to Media, 2062,” promulgated by King Gyanendra on 9 October. The ordinance will […]

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On one-year sentencing anniversary, IPI calls for release of Sierra Leonean journalist Paul Kamara

Despite numerous efforts by the international community to convince the Sierra Leonean government to release Paul Kamara, the For Di People editor and publisher remains in prison. On 5 October 2004, Justice A.B. Rashid found Paul Kamara, editor and publisher of the independent daily For Di People, guilty on two counts of seditious libel. Rashid […]

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Letter: IPI/SEEMO welcome the decision of the Macedonian Court of Appeals in the case of Raymonda Malecka

H.E. Branko Crvenkovski President of the Republic of Macedonia Skopje, Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) Fax: +389 2 3112 147 H.E. Ljupco Jordanovski President of the Assembly of the Republic of Macedonia Skopje, Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) Fax: +389 2 3113 643 H.E. Vlado Buckovski Prime Minister of the Republic of Macedonia Skopje, Republic of Macedonia […]

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