His Excellency Atal Behari Vajpayee Prime Minister of India Office of the Prime Minister New Delhi India Vienna, 29 January 1999 Your Excellency, The International Press Institute (IPI) strongly condemns the brutal murder of Shivani Bhatanagar, a correspondent of the English-language daily newspaper The Indian Express. IPI is informed that unknown assailants entered Ms. Bhatnagar’s […]

His Excellency Andrés Pastrana President of Colombia Santafé de Bogotá Colombia Vienna, 30 November 1999 Your Excellency, The International Press Institute (IPI), the global network of editors and media executives, strongly condemns the killing of two Colombian journalists. According to our sources, two local television reporters, Luis Alberto Rincón and Alberto Sánchez, were shot dead […]

Exactly ten years after NATO bombed the headquarters of Serbian state radio and television (RTS), the Vienna based South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), an affiliate of the International Press Institute, today calls for NATO to ensure an independent investigation into the attack. On 23 April 1999, 16 media workers were killed when NATO bombs […]

The undersigned partners of the Media Freedom Rapid Response (MFRR) today welcome the confirmed guilty verdicts handed down to four former officials in the Serbian state security services for the murder in 1999 of leading journalist and editor-in-chief Slavko Ćuruvija. The decision by the Higher Court in Belgrade to reaffirm the convictions in the retrial […]