Latest News on Journalist Safety and Impunity

SEEMO/IPI marks tenth anniversary of NATO strike on Radio-Television Serbia (RTS)

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 […]

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Serbia: MFRR welcomes renewed convictions for murder of Slavko Ćuruvija

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 […]

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Court: Burkina Faso must investigate journalist’s 1998 death

The International Press Institute (IPI) today welcomed the African Court for Human and People’s Rights (ACHPR)’s decision to reopen the investigation into the death of Norbert Zongo, an investigative reporter killed nearly 17 years ago, and three companions killed with him. The ACHPR ruled that the Burkina Faso government must search for the killers and […]

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Letter: Philippines radio announcer killed while on air

H. E. Gen. Fidel Ramos President of the Philippines Malacańang Palace Metro Manila The Philippines Vienna, 30 March 1998 The International Press Institute (IPI), the global network of editors and media executives, strongly condemns the killing of a radio announcer in the southern Philippine city of Zamboanga on Monday, 30 March. Rey Bancairin was shot […]

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