International Press Institute (IPI)

(IPI/IFEX) – IPI is condemning in the strongest possible terms the recent NATO strikes on the media in Serbia. **Updates IFEX alerts of 26 April, 23 April, 22 April and 21 April 1999** While appreciating the fact that state-run Radio and Television of Serbia (RTS) is a propaganda tool for President Slobodan Milosevic’s regime, IPI […]

(IPI/IFEX) – IPI is most concerned for the safety of Pit Schnitzler, a German television correspondent, who is currently being detained by the authorities in Yugoslavia. **Updates IFEX alerts of 23 April and 22 April 1999** Pit Schnitzler, 56, south-east Europe correspondent for the German television station Sat.1, has been held by the authorities since […]

(IPI/IFEX) – The following is a notice of an IPI international campaign: Join the International Campaign to free journalist Fuad Qahramanli – Trade Union of Journalists (TUJo)/Azerbaijan in partnership with International Press Institute (IPI) The Trade Union of Journalists (TUJo), Azerbaijan, and IPI, the global network of editors and media executives, have launched a campaign […]

(IPI/IFEX) – The following letter is a reply from Independent Television Commission (ITC) spokesperson Peter B. Rogers to IPI’s recent letter expressing concern regarding the suspension of Med TV: **Updates IFEX alerts of 2 April and 30 March 1999** Dear Mr. Fritz MED TV Thank you for letting us know views in the ITC’s actions […]

(IPI/IFEX) – IPI is condemning the detention of two Spanish television correspondents and a Dutch freelance photographer in Kosovo. **Updates IFEX alert of 6 April 1999**

(IPI/IFEX) – President Boris Yeltsin vetoed legislation on 31 March 1999 that would have established a council of lawmakers to oversee ”the protection of morals in Russian TV and radio broadcasts.” The President said the legislation would be a form of censorship explicitly outlawed by Russian law. **Updates IFEX alert of 23 March 1999** The […]

(IPI/IFEX) – IPI is strongly condemning the kidnapping of a correspondent working for Itar-Tass news agency. According to IPI’s sources, unidentified armed men broke into the house of Said Isayev, a Chechen who has worked for the Russian news agency for five years, and seized the journalist on late Sunday, 28 March 1999. **For background […]

(IPI/IFEX) – IPI recently expressed its concern with regard to the suspension for a period of twenty one days of the satellite television service licence of Med Broadcasting Ltd. (Med TV). IPI understands that the Independent Television Commission (ITC) has taken this action under powers given by Parliament in Section 89 of the 1996 Broadcasting […]