Articles by ARTICLE 19
Call for fresh inquiry into journalists’ “disappearance”
(ARTICLE 19/IFEX) – The following is an ARTICLE 19 press release: 14 January 2000 – for immediate release CALL FOR FRESH INQUIRY INTO NIGERIAN JOURNALISTS’ ‘DISAPPEARANCE’ ARTICLE 19 today wrote to Chief Godwin Agabi, Attorney General of Nigeria to urge that the ‘disappearance’ of journalists Bagauda Kaltho and Chinedu Offoaro are part of new investigations […]
Media coverage of elections monitored
MEDIA MONITORING PROJECT MOZAMBIQUE ELECTIONS 1999 ARTICLE 19 / LIGA MOZAMBICANA DOS DIREITOS HUMANOS INTERIM CONCLUSIONS OF PROJECT I INTRODUCTION The elections of 3-4 December 1999 in Mozambique mark another crucial moment in the country’s emergence from civil war and in the democratic transition which began in November 1990, with the approval by the Assembly […]
Election reporting by public media less biased than in 1994. but party funding controversial
Following the announcement today of the electoral victory in Mozambique of incumbent President Joaquim Chissano and the ruling party FRELIMO, ARTICLE 19 and the Mozambique Human Rights League (LDH) have published a joint report commending the publicly-owned media in Mozambique for an overall improvement in the balance and impartiality of its coverage during the December […]
Politicians, academics and writers face continued detention without charges
The following is an ARTICLE 19 letter to President Arafat, expressing its concern over the threat to freedom of expression in Palestine posed by a number of continuing detentions without charge: His Excellency Yasser Arafat President Palestinian National Authority Gaza City, Gaza By fax: +972 7 823 744 Your Excellency ARTICLE 19 is extremely disturbed […]
ARTICLE 19 concerned over one-year prison sentence, sedition charge against reverend
In a letter to Pesident Benjamin W Mkapa, ARTICLE 19 has expressed its concern about the one-year sentence of imprisonment imposed on the Reverend Christopher Mtikila by the Kivukoni Magistrate’s Court on 14 December 1999 in connection with allegedly seditious statements which he made about the government in 1997. His imprisonment comes only a month […]
Campaigners against impunity face jail sentences
**Updates IFEX alerts of 7 and 1 December, 9 July, 7 May and 18 January 1999, 22, 16 and 15 December 1998** (ARTICLE 19/IFEX) – The following is a 16 December 1999 ARTICLE 19 press release: BURKINA FASO: Human rights defenders face gross injustice Seven human rights defenders face up to five years in prison […]
International Human Rights Day 1999: challenging impunity
**Updates IFEX alerts of 9 July, 7 May and 18 January 1999, 22 October, 16 October and 15 December 1998** (ARTICLE 19/IFEX) -The following is an ARTICLE 19 press release: Forward Planning Notice Re: International Human Rights Day: 10 December 1999. INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS DAY 1999: CHALLENGING IMPUNITY The last week has seen huge demonstrations […]
Free expression chiefs call for action on criminal defamation
(ARTICLE 19/IFEX) – The following is an ARTICLE 19 press release 29 November 1999 – for immediate release FREE EXPRESSION CHIEFS CALL FOR ACTION ON CRIMINAL DEFAMATION The three international guarantors of freedom of expression have met for the first time, in London at the invitation of ARTICLE 19, to discuss their common mission – […]