H. E. Leonid Kuchma President Kiev Ukraine Vienna, 12 August 1997 Your Excellency, The International Press Institute (IPI) strongly condemns the killing of Boris Derevyanko, editor-in-chief of Vechernya Odessa (Evening Odessa). On Monday, 11 August 1997, Mr. Derevyanko was shot twice point blank in the heart and stomach by an unidentified gunman near the Press […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today voiced concern about reports that journalists in Kerala, India were being restricted from entering various courts in the southern Indian state, including the High Court of Kerala, and called for journalists to be allowed to report on court proceedings without interference. The restrictions come after a section of lawyers […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today condemned the murder of a Mexican journalist under police protection who was gunned down on Wednesday in eastern Veracruz. According to news accounts, Pedro Tamayo Rosas was working with his wife and two grown sons at a food stand outside his home in Tierra Blanca when two men approached […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today strongly condemned the killing of a prominent journalist in a car bombing in downtown Kiev this morning in what Ukrainian authorities have preliminarily called a “premeditated murder”. Pavel Sheremet, a Belarus-born journalist who had been working in Ukraine for the past five years at news site Ukrainska Pravda and […]