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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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Letter: Pro-Kurdish newspaper banned

H. E. Tansu Ciller Prime Minister of Turkey Prime Minister’s Office Ankara Turkey Vienna, 21 August 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 de facto banning of Yeni-Politika, a pro-Kurdish daily newspaper. […]

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Letter: Editor of Egyptian opposition newspaper attacked

H. E. Muhammad Hosni Mubarak President of the Arab Republic of Egypt Office of the President Oruba Palace Heliopolis, Cairo Egypt Vienna, 3 August 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 recent […]

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