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Letter: Sri Lanka journalist murdered

H.E. Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga President Presidential Secretarial Secretarial Building Colombo, 01 Sri Lanka Vienna, 20 October 2000 Your Excellency, The International Press Institute (IPI), the global network of editors and media executives, condemns in the strongest possible terms the murder of a Sri Lankan journalist. According to our sources, on 19 October, Mailvaganam Nimalaranjan died […]

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Letter: Armed forces helicopters target radio station in Palestine

His Excellency Ehud Barak Prime Minister Kiryat Ben-Gurion 3 Kaplan St, P.O. Box 187 91919 Jerusalem Israel Vienna, 12 October 2000 Your Excellency, The International Press Institute (IPI), the global network of editors and media executives, strongly condemns the deliberate targeting by Israeli armed forces of a Palestine radio station in Ramallah. According to our […]

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Letter: French television crew kidnapped in the Philippines

H.E. Joseph Estrada President Manila Republic of the Philippines Vienna, 10 July 2000 Your Excellency, The International Press Institute (IPI), the global network of editors and journalists, strongly condemns the abduction of three French TV journalists on the southern Philippine island of Jolo. According to IPI’s information, the three journalists were abducted on 9 July […]

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Letter: Television journalist slain in Colombia

H.E. Andres Pastrana Arango President Office of the President Santa Fe de Bogota Colombia Vienna, 6 July 2000 Your Excellency, The International Press Institute, the global network of editors and journalists, strongly condemns the killing of television journalist Marisol Rebelo. Rebelo, 25, had been working for a local TV news programme sponsored by an environmental […]

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