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IPI/SEEMO alarmed at attack by Korca city mayor on a journalist in Albania

The Vienna-based South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), a network of editors, media executives and leading journalists in South East Europe and an affiliate of the International Press Institute (IPI), is alarmed at the recent attack by the Mayor of Korca on a journalist in Albania. According to information before SEEMO, on 26 June, Robert […]

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IPI views journalist’s jailing as assault on U.S. press freedom

Based on information provided to the International Press Institute (IPI), on 6 July, Judge Thomas F. Hogan, sitting at the Federal District Court in Washington, DC, jailed New York Times reporter Judith Miller. The Judge’s decision follows his judgement at an October 2004 hearing that Miller and Time magazine journalist, Matthew Cooper, were guilty of […]

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IPI says continued pursuit of Time/N.Y. Times journalists unreasonable

According to news reports, on 5 July, special prosecutor Patrick J. Fitzgerald filed legal documents at the court in preparation for a hearing today at the Federal District Court in Washington, DC. The hearing will decide whether Time journalist Matthew Cooper and New York Times journalist Judith Miller are to be jailed for civil contempt […]

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Letter: IPI and WAN call for repeal of seditious libel law under which editor Paul Kamara is currently imprisoned

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 […]

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