Articles by Canadian Journalists for Free Expression
Journalist allowed to leave country, still faces danger
(CJFE/IFEX) – On 15 December 1998, Zafaryab Ahmed was finally allowed to leave Pakistan to take up his fellowship and teaching duties at Colby College in Waterville, Maine, USA. Senior people at Colby College, as well as the American ambassador to Pakistan, had increasingly lobbied the Pakistani government on Ahmed’s behalf. USA Senator Tom Harkin […]
Newspaper publisher killed
(CCPJ/IFEX) – Canadian Press reports that newspaper publisher Tara Singh Hayer was shot to death in the garage of his suburban Vancouver home on the evening of 18 November 1998. Hayer, who published the “Indo-Canadian Times”, Canada’s largest and oldest Punjabi weekly, was an outspoken critic of violent Sikh fundamentalists and had already been the […]
Journalist blacklisted and deported
(CCPJ/IFEX) – CCPJ reports that Indonesian authorities have blacklisted and deported John Stackhouse, a correspondent with the Canadian national daily “The Globe and Mail”. On 10 November 1998, Stackhouse, the newspaper’s New Delhi correspondent, was detained by immigration officials at Jakarta’s international airport when he arrived on a flight from Kuala Lumpur. He was told […]
CCPJ continues to call for Malaolu’s release
(CCPJ/IFEX) – On 28 September 1998, the CCPJ sent via courier over 215 letters signed by Executive Director Wayne Sharpe and other members and supporters of the CCPJ to Gen. Abdulsalam Abubakar, calling for the immediate release of Niran Malaolu, Editor of “The Diet” newspaper. In the covering letter, CCPJ also expressed its concerns for […]
Freed journalist Chris Anyanwu calls for democracy
(CCPJ/IFEX) – The battle for freedom of expression and democracy in Nigeria is not over, said recently-released Nigerian journalist Chris Anyanwu in a keynote speech given at the Canadian Committee to Protect Journalists’ (CCPJ) Annual Meeting in Toronto, Canada on 17 September. Anyanwu, released after the death of dictator Sani Abacha, thanked the CCPJ and […]
Prime Minister’s role in suppressing demonstrators at APEC forum probed
(CCPJ/IFEX) – The role of Canada’s Prime Minister Jean Chrétien is being questioned in a violent clampdown on protesters at last November’s Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) meetings in Vancouver, British Columbia. Protesters were arrested and pepper-sprayed by officers of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), mostly for protesting against Indonesian dictator Suharto, who was attending […]
Foreign reporters expelled after interviewing Aung San Suu Kyi
(CCPJ/IFEX) – On 1 September 1998, Canadian journalist Doug Earl and two other foreign reporters were picked up by security police after interviewing Aung San Suu Kyi at the home of another opposition member. Reached in Bangkok, Thailand by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) radio, Earl said that when he and the others finished the interview, […]
Telephone conversations of two newspaper journalists monitored by police
(CCPJ/IFEX) – The CCPJ has learned that two more journalists have been the target of a police wiretap investigation, one week after it was revealed that the telephone conversations of a third journalist had been monitored. **For background to phone tapping of the third Canadian journalist, see IFEX alert dated 11 June 1998** On 15 […]