#IPIWoCo starts with solidarity for jailed journalists
(World News Austria)

The International Press Institute (IPI) yesterday kicked off its annual World Congress with a call for solidarity with three IPI members and some 160 other journalists currently behind bars in Turkey. The call came during an opening ceremony at Hamburg`s historic City Hall for the Congress, which from May 18 to 20 will bring over 300 leading media representatives and their guests from some 45 countries to discuss how to meet the challenges quality journalism faces today. Olaf Scholz, first mayor of Hamburg, welcomed Congress participants and stressed the importance of a free media for democracies, emphasising that `efforts to limit press freedom and impede the work of journalists always...