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Link to: RSF protests continued harassment of newspaper

RSF protests continued harassment of newspaper

(RSF/IFEX) – RSF is protesting the harassment of the three-times-weekly “Naviny”, in Minsk (central Belarus). On 27 May 1999, the three-times-weekly “Naviny”, an opposition newspaper, received a “warning” from the state council on the press – its second since the beginning of the year – which threatens it with closure under Belarussian law. This warning […]

Link to: Journalists covering Öcalan trial face restrictions

Journalists covering Öcalan trial face restrictions

(RSF/IFEX) – RSF is protesting the restrictions imposed on journalists covering the trial of Abdullah Öcalan. **Updates IFEX alert of 5 March 1999** According to RSF’s information, of the 700 Turkish and foreign journalists who received accreditation to cover the trial of Öcalan, the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) leader, only twenty will be given permission […]

Link to: ARTICLE 19 protests Serb TV suspension

ARTICLE 19 protests Serb TV suspension

(ARTICLE 19/IFEX) – The following is an ARTICLE 19 press release: **Updates IFEX alert of 27 May 1999** 28 May 1999 – for immediate release POLITICAL GROUNDS NOT GOOD ENOUGH FOR SERB TV BAN, SAYS ANTI-CENSORSHIP GROUP ARTICLE 19, the International Centre Against Censorship, today asked the UK government for clarification of the grounds for […]

Link to: Independent newspaper receives second warning

Independent newspaper receives second warning

(CPJ/IFEX) – CPJ is deeply disturbed to learn that, on 26 May 1999, the State Press Committee issued a second warning to the independent newspaper “Naviny”, which could lead to its closure. CPJ views the warning as the latest act of intimidation in a campaign to silence independent media in Belarus. **Updates IFEX alerts of […]

Link to: Journalist hit by sniper

Journalist hit by sniper

(CPJ/IFEX) – CPJ has learned that a sound technician from Chilean national TV was critically injured today by a sniper near Albania’s border with Kosovo. Abner Mashuca, a Chilean national, was hit in the head by a sniper’s bullet as members of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) and Serb forces exchanged fire near the border […]

Link to: Rebroadcasts of Serbian state television suspended

Rebroadcasts of Serbian state television suspended

(RSF/IFEX) – The following is an RSF press release: Reporters sans frontières deplores the 26 May 1999 decision by member states of the telecommunications organisation Eutelsat to suspend rebroadcasts of Serbian state television, RTS, even if this station has transformed itself into a propaganda tool and weapon of Slobodan Milosevic’s regime. This measure represents an […]

Link to: Journalist sentenced

Journalist sentenced

(GHM/IFEX) – A journalist was sentenced to jail in Greece on 21 May 1999. On 21 May 1999, journalist Dimitris Rizos, editor and publisher of the daily “Adesmeftos Typos”, was convicted by a three-member Appeals Court of Athens to twelve months in prison for the repeated aggravated defamation of four members of the board of […]

Link to: Journalist sentenced

Journalist sentenced

(GHM/IFEX) – A journalist was sentenced to jail in Greece on 19 May 1999. On 19 May, journalist Charalambos Triantafyllidis, editor and publisher of the weekly “Enimerosi” (in Florina, NW Greece), was convicted by the three-member Appeals Court in Kozani, and given a five-month suspended prison sentence for insulting Florina’s then prefect-elect Pavlos Altanis, on […]

Link to: Federal Republic of Yugoslavia: a state under censorship

Federal Republic of Yugoslavia: a state under censorship

(RSF/IFEX) – The following is an RSF press release: Federal Republic of Yugoslavia: a state under censorship After eight weeks of NATO bombings against Yugoslavia, Slobodan Milosevic’s regime has crippled the Albanian press while simultaneously muzzling Serbia’s independent media. As for Montenegro’s media, they find themselves at the heart of the battle between Podgorica and […]

Link to: ARTICLE 19 shocked by court decision against newspapers

ARTICLE 19 shocked by court decision against newspapers

(ARTICLE 19/IFEX) – ARTICLE 19 is expressing its shock at learning that the Supreme Economic Court of Belarus on 13 May 1999 rejected requests for postponing the hearing of petitions from newspapers seeking to overturn official warnings issued to them for publishing material considered by the state to be seditious. The papers had requested the […]

Link to: CPJ condemns conviction of journalist Calislar

CPJ condemns conviction of journalist Calislar

(CPJ/IFEX) – CPJ is outraged by the criminal conviction of journalist Oral Calislar, a columnist for the daily “Cumhurriyet”. **Updates IFEX alerts of 20 May 1999 and 24 July 1998** On 18 May 1999, Calislar was convicted of disseminating “separatist propaganda” under Article 8 of the Anti-Terror Law and sentenced to 13 months in prison […]

Link to: Journalist jailed

Journalist jailed

(IPI/IFEX) – IPI, meeting at its World Congress and 48th General Assembly in Taipei, Taiwan from 16 to 19 May 1999, is strongly condemning the jailing of Turkish journalist Oral Calislar. **Updates IFEX alert of 24 July 1998** Calislar, a columnist for the daily “Cumhuriyet”, was convicted under the Anti-Terror Law in the Istanbul State […]

Link to: Journalist sentenced

Journalist sentenced

(GHM/IFEX) – A journalist has been sentenced to jail in Greece. On 18 May 1999, journalist Dimitris Rizos, editor and publisher of the daily “Adesmeftos Typos”, was convicted and given a five-month suspended sentence for insulting George Papazoglou, a former cadre of the newspaper. The incriminating text did in fact include insulting characterisations of Papazoglou. […]

Link to: Journalist assassinated

Journalist assassinated

(RSF/IFEX) – RSF is expressing its concern about the assassination of journalist Igor Bondar in Odessa (in Ukraine’s south-western region). According to RSF’s information, on 16 May 1999, Bondar, 32, director of the AMT television station, was shot and killed in the city’s residential neighbourhood, as he was driving in a car with Boris Vikhrov, […]

Link to: Claims of six independent newspapers rejected

Claims of six independent newspapers rejected

(GDF/IFEX) – GDF is concerned about new freedom of expression violations in Belarus. On 13 May 1999, the Judicial College of the Supreme Economic Court of Belarus rejected the claims of six independent Belarussian newspapers to the State Press Committee, seeking to revoke the warnings issued to these newspapers for publishing information on the opposition […]

Link to: CPJ update: journalists caught in the crossfire

CPJ update: journalists caught in the crossfire

(CPJ/IFEX) – The following is a CPJ update on recent events in FRY: **Updates IFEX alerts of 12 May, 10 May, 7 May 1999 and others** CPJ Update: Journalists Caught in the Crossfire The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), a nonpartisan organization dedicated to safeguarding press freedom around the world, has documented further maltreatment of […]