Latest News on Journalist Safety and Impunity

Journalist killed in Cambodia

His Excellency Norodom Ranariddh First Prime Minister Office of the First Prime Minister Phnom Penh Cambodia Vienna, 12 December 1994 Your Excellency, The International Press Institute (IPI) strongly condemns the killing on 9 December 1994 of Mr. Chan Dary, a journalist working for the popular Khmer-language newspaper Koh Santepheap. We are informed that Mr. Chan […]

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Letter: IPI concerned about bomb attacks on Turkish daily’s bureaus

Her Excellency Tansu Ciller Prime Minister of Turkey Prime Minister’s Office Ankara Turkey Vienna, 5 December 1994 Your Excellency, The International Press Institute (IPI), is most concerned about the recent bomb attacks on bureaus of Özgür Ülke, the Istanbul daily newspaper. We understand that on 3 December 1994, bombs exploded in the Ankara and Istanbul […]

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Letter: IPI concerned about investigation of Russian journalist’s murder

His Excellency Mr. Boris Yeltsin President Moscow Russian Federation Vienna, 28 November 1994 Your Excellency, Over 40 days has passed since Dmitri Kholodov, a journalist working for Moscow’s most popular daily newspaper Moscovski Komsomolets, was killed in a bomb blast. Mr. Kholodov , who had been investigating mafia connections with officers in the Western Army […]

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Letter: IPI concerned about assassination of Egyptian Television cameraman

His Excellency Muhammad Hosni Mubarak President of the Republic of Egypt Cairo Egypt Vienna, 20 September 1994 Your Excellency, The International Press Institute (IPI), representing over 2000 journalists and editors from leading newspapers, magazines and broadcasting organizations and news agencies in over 85 countries, is most concerned about the assassination by gunmen of Labib Ibrahim, […]

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