Based on information provided to IPI, on 15 June, vendors working for The Post newspaper in Lusaka, Zambia, were apparently attacked by a group allegedly close to the ruling Movement for Multi-Party Democracy (MMD). During the attack, the group, some of whom wielded machetes and pangas, stole around 2,000 copies of the 15 June edition of The Post. […]

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 […]

Hon. Amos Wako Attorney General State Law Office Sheria House P O Box 40112 Nairobi Kenya Fax: +254 020 211082 Vienna, 20 May 2005 Your Excellency, The International Press Institute (IPI), the global network of editors, leading journalists and media executives in over 120 countries, is writing to express its concern about the decision to […]

Two members of the Free Media Movement (FMM), an independent group of editors and leading journalists committed to freedom of expression and opinion, have received death threats from a group calling itself “Theraputtabhaya force”. According to information provided to the International Press Institute (IPI), FMM convenor and editor-in-chief of the Ravaya newspaper, Victor Ivan, and […]