Latest News on Journalist Safety and Impunity

Letter: Newspaper offices bombed in Lithuania

H. E. Algirdas Brazauskas President of the Republic of Lithuania Office of the President Vilnius Lithuania Vienna, 20 November 1995 Your Excellency, The International Press Institute (IPI), the global network of editors and media executives from newspapers, magazines, broadcasting organisations and news agencies in 85 countries, strongly condemns the bombing of the offices of the […]

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Letter: Journalist dies while in police detention in Turkey

H. E. Tansu Ciller Prime Minister of Turkey Prime Minister’s Office Ankara Turkey Vienna, 1 September 1995 Your Excellency, The International Press Institute (IPI) strongly condemns the death in police detention of Sayfettin Tepe, a journalist for the recently banned pro-Kurdish newspaper Yeni Politika. We are informed that on 22 August 1995 Mr. Tepe was […]

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Letter: Editor of Egyptian opposition newspaper attacked

H. E. Muhammad Hosni Mubarak President of the Arab Republic of Egypt Office of the President Oruba Palace Heliopolis, Cairo Egypt Vienna, 3 August 1995 Your Excellency, The International Press Institute (IPI), a global network of editors and media executives from newspapers, magazines, broadcasting organisations and news agencies in 85 countries, strongly condemns the recent […]

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Letter: Journalist stabbed in Pakistan after receiving threatening phone calls

His Excellency Benazir Bhutto Prime Minster of Pakistan Office of the Prime Minister Islamabad Islamic Republic of Pakistan Vienna, 6 June 1995 Your Excellency, The International Press Institute (IPI), a global network of editors and media executives from newspapers, magazines, broadcasting organisations and news agencies in 85 countries, strongly condemns the stabbing of a journalist […]

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