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The International Press Institute, IPI, on Friday accused Prime Minister Janez Jansa of putting intense pressure on Bojan Veselinovic, director of the Slovenian Press Agency, STA, saying that this pressure "reaches worrying new heights".

Earlier this month, as I prepared myself for a retinal scan to enter a notorious prison in Istanbul, my mind wandered beyond freedom of press to equally important areas for the media and all of us, such as privacy rights, network security, governments, Big Tech, advertisers and concentration of power.

The Production Index in Industry (IPI) recorded a decrease of 3.0% in February, Hellenic Statistical Authority said in a report released on Friday.

In February 2015, the annual rate of change of the IPI was 1.8%. In the 2-month period from January 2016 to February 2016, the average rate of change of the IPI was 0.6%.

The Production Index in Industry in January 2016 recorded an increase of 4.6% compared with January 2015, according to working day adjusted data, as an announcement of Hellenic Statistical Authority says.

In January 2015, the annual rate of change of the IPI was 0.1%.

The Vienna-based International Press Institute (IPI) has condemned a second physical attack in less than 48 hours targeting daily Hürriyet's HQ in Istanbul, as well as an attack on daily Sabah, with the group's national committee calling for an "end to impunity."