Articles by Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ)
Parliament may abolish criminal libel, decision to free journalist reversed
(CPJ/IFEX) – The following is a 13 April 2001 CPJ press release: New York, April 13, 2001 — The Kyrgyz Parliament is currently considering the repeal of the republic’s notorious criminal libel statutes. A parliamentary committee recently circulated draft legislation to exclude articles 127 and 128 (for libel and insult respectively) from the Criminal Code. […]
CPJ protests continued harassment of journalist
(CPJ/IFEX) – In a 12 April 2001 letter to Lebanese President Emile Lahoud, CPJ expressed its deep concern about his government’s ongoing harassment of Samir Qassir, a journalist who writes for the Beirut daily “Al-Nahar”. On 28 March, Lebanese security authorities seized Qassir’s passport at Beirut Airport upon his arrival from Amman, where he had […]
CPJ calls for release of Cuban journalist under house arrest
(CPJ/IFEX) – The following is a CPJ press release: CPJ Calls For Release Of Cuban Journalist Under House Arrest New York, April 12, 2001 — Cuban authorities placed local independent journalist Ricardo González Alfonso under house arrest on April 9, according to the local independent news agency CubaPress. González Alfonso, 49, is the Cuba correspondent […]
Appeal for release of journalist one year after jailing
(CPJ/IFEX) – The following is a CPJ press release: CPJ Appeals For Release of Iranian Journalist One Year After Jailing New York, April 10, 2001 – As Iranian newspaper editor Mashallah Shamsolvaezin marked the end of his first year in prison, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) today presented more than 350 petitions to the […]
CPJ requests information on journalist’s murder
(CPJ/IFEX) – In a 5 April 2001 letter to President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga, CPJ requested information about the status of the investigation into the murder of Mylvaganam Nimalarajan, a Jaffna-based journalist who was killed in October 2000. Nimalarajan covered the civil war for various news organizations, including the BBC’s Tamil and Sinhala-language services, the Tamil-language […]
Special briefing on Zongo affair on CPJ website
(CPJ/IFEX) – The following is a 4 April 2001 CPJ press release: Special Briefing On Burkino Faso and the Zongo Affair Now On CPJ Web Site New York, April 4, 2001 – A special report on the circumstances surrounding the 1998 murder of Norbert Zongo, editor of the weekly L’Indépendant in the Burkina Faso capital, […]
Gazprom completes NTV takeover
(CPJ/IFEX) – The following is a 3 April 2001 CPJ press release: RUSSIA: Gazprom Completes NTV Takeover April 3, 2001, New York – Russia’s state-dominated gas monopoly Gazprom used a shareholders meeting today to take formal control of the independent Russian television network, NTV. The new management removed NTV founder Vladimir Gusinsky and managing director […]
Four jailed journalists freed
(CPJ/IFEX) – The following is a 2 April 2001 CPJ press release: Liberia: Four Jailed Journalists Freed New York, April 2, 2001 – Four journalists from the Liberian daily The News were released on March 30 after being jailed on espionage charges for over a month. International news sources reported that the government’s action came […]