Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ)

(CPJ/IFEX) – In a 13 July 2000 letter to President Bashar al-Assad on the occasion of his recent confirmation as president, CPJ urged him to do everything in his power to ensure that his government upholds international press freedom standards and guarantees the rights of journalists to practice their profession freely. For years, CPJ has […]

(CPJ/IFEX) – The following is a CPJ correction to alert: ***CORRECTION*** July 13, 2000 Dear Colleagues: CPJ’s July 12 protest letter addressed to China’s President Jiang Zemin contains two errors, both in the section detailing the case of freelance journalist Qi Yanchen. The letter misstated the place of Qi’s arrest: he was arrested at his […]

(CPJ/IFEX) – In a 12 July 2000 letter to Chinese President Jiang Zemin, CPJ strongly condemned the imprisonment of Huang Qi and Qi Yanchen, both of whom have been charged with subversion for allegedly posting anti-government articles on the Internet. Though the two cases are separate, CPJ believes that, considered together, they represent a disturbing […]

(CPJ/IFEX) – The following is an 11 July 2000 CPJ, Media Institute for Southern Africa (MISA), Freedom of Expression Institute (FXI) and ARTICLE 19 joint statement on press freedom, addressed to Prime Minister Barnabas Sibusiso Dlamini: July 11, 2000 H.E. Barnabas Sibusiso Dlamini Prime Minister of Swaziland Mbabane, Swaziland VIA FAX: 268.6.43943 Your Excellency: We, […]

(CPJ/IFEX) – The following is a CPJ press release: Russian Public Television Cameraman Disappears in Belarus Committee to Protect Journalists Calls for Immediate Search New York, July 12 – The Committee to Protect Journalists is gravely concerned about the disappearance on July 7 in Minsk, Belarus, of Dmitry Zavadsky, a cameraman for Russian Public Television […]

(CPJ/IFEX) – On 20 June 2000, guerrillas from the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, the armed movement known by its Colombian acronym FARC, confiscated and burned copies of the Bogotá-based daily “El Tiempo”. According to an “El Tiempo” report confirmed by CPJ’s sources in Colombia, at around 4 a.m. (local time) more than fifty guerrillas […]

(CPJ/IFEX) – In a 10 July 2000 letter to Gambian President Yahya A.J.J. Jammeh, CPJ expressed its deep concern about recent press freedom violations in The Gambia, including the prosecution of one journalist on murder charges. Based on the organisation’s investigation into the abuses related in this letter, CPJ has come to the unfortunate conclusion […]

(CPJ/IFEX) – In a 7 July 2000 letter to President Emile Lahoud, CPJ strongly protested the Lebanese authorities’ recent decision to annul the passport of Raghida Dergham, the New York bureau chief for the London-based daily “Al-Hayat” and a widely respected commentator on Arab affairs. On 19 June, Lebanese authorities seized Dergham’s Lebanese passport upon […]