Articles by ARTICLE 19
ARTICLE 19 to support journalists’ legal bid
**Updates IFEX alerts of 29 January, 27 January, 25 January, 22 January, 21 January, 18 January, 15 January and 13 January 1999** (ARTICLE 19/IFEX) – The following is an ARTICLE 19 press release: 3 February 1999 – for immediate release ARTICLE 19 TO SUPPORT ZIMBABWE JOURNALISTS’ LEGAL BID ARTICLE 19 is to support a direct […]
Ministers threaten election monitoring centre
(ARTICLE 19/IFEX) – The following is a 3 February 1999 ARTICLE 19 letter to Sri Lankan Minister Mangala Samaraweera concerning recent threats by government ministers to the Centre for Monitoring Election Violence: 3rd February, 1999 Hon. Mangala Samaraweera Minister of Media Colombo Sri Lanka ARTICLE 19, the International Centre against Censorship, is greatly concerned by […]
Severe financial strain put on “Feral Tribune”
(ARTICLE 19/IFEX) – ARTICLE 19 is extremely concerned to learn that the weekly magazine “Feral Tribune” is under severe financial pressure, due to the withholding of a large sum of money owed to the publication by the state-controlled newspaper distributor, Tisak. It appears to ARTICLE 19 that this latest action follows a pattern whereby the […]
State squeezes Croatian satirists
HASH(0x8962ed8) **Updates IFEX alerts of 22 December, 21 December, 24 November, 30 September and 19 May 1998, 19 December, 21 October and 6 May 1997, 10 October, 26 September, 19 September, 14 June, 12 June and 8 May 1996** (ARTICLE 19/IFEX) – The following is a ARTICLE 19 press release further to increased state harassment […]
Editor arrested in connection with article
(ARTICLE 19/IFEX) – ARTICLE 19 is concerned about reports that Mark Chavhunduka, editor of “The Standard” newpaper, was arrested on 12 January 1999 by military police officers and is being detained at Cranborne military barracks in connection with an article which the newspaper published regarding an alleged coup. According to ARTICLE 19’s information, no charge […]
ARTICLE 19 calls on warring parties not to target journalists, urges that “truth” must be part of peace efforts
(ARTICLE 19/IFEX) – The following is a ARTICLE 19 press release calling on all parties to the civil war in Sierra Leone to respect international human rights principles in relation to journalists reporting the conflict: **Updates IFEX alerts of 11 January and 6 January 1999** 12 January 1999 – for immediate release Sierra Leone – […]
Positive court ruling for independent newspaper
(ARTICLE 19/IFEX) – On 22 December 1998 the Belarus Supreme Economic Court cancelled a formal warning by the State Committee on the Press to the independent Belarusian-language newspaper “Nasha Niva”. **Updates IFEX alert of 5 August 1998. For further background to harassment of “Nasha Niva”, see IFEX alerts of 27 June 1997 and 18 November […]
Roots of violence in Kenya lie in lack of media freedom, claims ARTICLE 19
(ARTICLE 19/IFEX) – As Kenyans await the results of the Ethnic Clashes Inquiry (see footnote), which started in July of this year, ARTICLE 19 is publishing “Kenya: Post-election political violence.” The report looks at some of the roots of the violence in the Rift Valley which took place in 1998 following the Presidential elections, and […]