East Timor

(RSF/IFEX) – RSF is very concerned by the situation of the East Timorese media and journalists. **Updates IFEX alerts of 20 April, 29 March, 10 March and 24 February 1999** According to RSF’s information, on 17 April 1999, the office of “Voice of East Timor”, a pro-independence newspaper, was ransacked by members of the Red […]

(CPJ/IFEX) – CPJ is alarmed by the attacks against journalists working in East Timor that have accompanied the sharp escalation of violence in the province in recent weeks. Conditions are now extremely dangerous for journalists reporting in East Timor, as they are increasingly targeted by pro-government militias offended by press coverage of their activities. **Updates […]

(AJI/IFEX) – The following is a 26 March 1999 AJI press release: AJI PROTESTS TERROR AGAINST JOURNALISTS FROM SUARA TIMOR TIMUR Based upon information received from a member of the Alliance of Independent Journalists (AJI) in Dili, East Timor, at around 17:00 local time on Saturday, 26 March 1999, journalists at the Suara Timor Timur […]

(IFJ/IFEX) – IFJ informs that José Alberto Carvalho and José Maria Cyrne, the Portuguese journalists stuck in Dili, were finally given an escort out of the building they were in and have returned to Portugal. **Updates IFEX alert of 24 February 1999**

(IFJ/IFEX) – The IFJ is very concerned for the current safety of two Portuguese journalists. According to the IFJ’s information, José Alberto Carvalho and José Maria Cyrne, of the SIC television station, were attacked by demonstrators whilst filming events in Dili. At least one camera and a mobile phone were broken. The two journalists were […]

(RSF/IFEX) – On 11 November 1997, Lynn Ann Fredriksson, a freelance journalist from the United States of America specialising in human rights violations, was expelled from East Timor as she was covering a ceremony marking the anniversary of a 1991 massacre of East Timor civilians by Indonesian soldiers. She is accused of “disturbing [the] public […]