Latest News on Journalist Safety and Impunity

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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Letter: Newspaper offices and staff violently attacked in Mauritius

H. E. Sir Anerood Jugnauth Prime Minister Office of the Prime Minister Government House Port Louis Mauritius Vienna, 4 May 1995 Your Excellency, The International Press Institute (IPI) is most concerned about the threat to press freedom in Mauritius posed by recent attacks on the Independent and its editor-in-chief Mr. Namassiwayam Ramalingum. We are informed […]

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