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Albania
IPI - SEEMO PROTEST ALBANIA
11.02.2002: IPI/Safax - Tirana
Rakipi.According to SEEMO's sources, over the past few months unidentified persons have attempted to prevent Rakipi and his newspaper from writing critical articles about Fatos Nano, chairman of the Albanian Socialist Party. On 3 February, Fatos Nano allegedly asked a journalist to mediate an agreement with Rakipi under which Albania would stop writing critical
articles about the chairman. When Rakipi categorically rejected this offer, he received anonymous death threats from persons who also threatened to bomb the newspaper's offices.
Only three months ago, on 8 November 2001, another publisher, Nikolle Lesi of the
independent Albanian newspaper Koha Jone, was physically assaulted in Tirana by an unidentified assailant, who also threatened him with a gun.
IPI and SEEMO sent the letter to Rexhep Meidani, President of Albania reminding him that 'it is the duty of the state to provide an environment in which media professionals are able to carry out their duties without fear of attack.'
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