His Excellency Ahmad Tejan Kabbah Office of the President State House 15 Siaka Steven Street Freetown Sierra Leone Fax: +232 22 231 404 Vienna, 4 July 2005 Your Excellency, We are writing on behalf of the International Press Institute (IPI) and the World Association of Newspapers (WAN), to call for the repeal of Sierra Leone’s […]

According to information provided to the International Press Institute (IPI), on 28 June, the Ethiopian authorities arrested four editors for apparent defamation of the Ethiopian air force. An Ethiopian court later released the editors on bail of approximately US$230 each. The editors, Dawit Fassil, Asqual News, Zelalem Gebre, Menilik newspaper, Befekadu Moreda, Tomar newspaper and […]

His Excellency José Manuel Barroso President of the European Commission European Commission 200 rue de la Loi 1049 Brussels Belgium Fax: (+ 322) 295 01 38 Vienna, 16 June 2005 Your Excellency, The International Press Institute (IPI), the global network of editors, media executives and leading journalists in over 120 countries, is writing to express […]

According to information before IPI, Nikolay Goshko, the deputy editor-in-chief of Odintsovskaya Nedelya in Smolensk, Russia, was sentenced to five years and one month in a penal colony for defaming three Smolensk city officials in a July 2000 broadcast on the independent station, Radio Vesna. On 27 July 2000, Goshko made statements during a programme on Radio […]