H. E. Andrés Pastrana Arango President of the Republic Santafé de Bogotá Colombia Vienna, 11 July 2001 Your Excellency, The International Press Institute (IPI), the global network of editors, media executives and leading journalists, strongly condemns the murder of four Colombian journalists over a period of 12 days. On 27 June, Pablo Emilio Parra Castańeda, […]

Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga President Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka Presidential Secretariat Colombo-1 Sri Lanka Fax: + 94 1 – 333 703 Vienna, 21 June 2001 Your Excellency, The International Press Institute (IPI), the global network of editors and media executives, is deeply worried about recent articles appearing in two state newspapers and an independent […]

His Excellency Bashar al-Assad President of Syria Presidential Palace Damascus Arab Republic of Syria Vienna, 21 June 2001 Your Excellency, The International Press Institute (IPI), the global network of editors and media executives, condemns in the strongest possible terms the abduction of Nizar Nayyouf, a journalist and human rights activist, by Syrian intelligence agents on […]

H.E. Jose Maria Aznar Prime Minister Madrid Spain Vienna, 25 May 2001 Your Excellency, The International Press Institute (IPI), the global network of editors and media executives, condemns in the strongest possible terms the killing of a newspaper executive in Spain’s Basque region. On 24 May, Santiago Oleaga Elejabarrieta was shot seven times, three times […]