Articles by Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ)
CPJ calls on Vietnamese government to abandon legal actions against scientist and political essayist
(CPJ/IFEX) – In a 29 June 2000 letter to Vietnamese President Tran Duc Luong, CPJ strongly protested the house arrest of writer Dr. Nguyen Xuan Tu, better known by his pen name Dr. Ha Sy Phu. The organisation called on the Vietnamese government to restore Dr. Ha’s liberty and abandon legal actions currently pending against […]
CPJ condemns junta’s plan to legalise censorship
(CPJ/IFEX) – In a 28 June 2000 letter to President Robert Gueï, CPJ expressed its grave concern about his regime’s plans to tighten state control over the press in Côte d’Ivoire. According to CPJ’s sources in Abidjan, Information Minister Captain Henri Cesar Sama announced on 23 June that the ruling National Public Salvation Committee (CNSP) […]
CPJ protests official harassment of Bosnian journalists
(CPJ/IFEX) – In a 27 June 2000 letter to the chairman of the presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Alija Izetbegovic, CPJ stated that it is deeply disturbed by several recent incidents in which individuals closely linked to his political party attacked individual journalists and a local publishing house in Sarajevo. On 11 June, according to […]
CPJ outraged by continued persecution of journalist Freddy Loseke
(CPJ/IFEX) – In a 26 June 2000 letter to President Laurent-Désiré Kabila, CPJ expressed its outrage over the continued persecution of Freddy Loseke Lisumbu la Yayenga, editor of the Kinshasa-based weekly “La Libre Afrique”. CPJ condemned Loseke’s recent conviction for “insulting the army,” an absurd charge that is an affront to the most basic standards […]
Two journalists arrested and detained near Kinshasa
(CPJ/IFEX) – The following is a CPJ press release: DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO: Two journalists arrested and detained near Kinshasa New York, June 26, 2000 — CPJ calls for the immediate release of a BBC journalist and her Congolese assistant who were arrested yesterday by security agents near the Congolese capital, Kinshasa. Caroline Pare, a […]
Armed men threaten radio station’s office in Luanda
(CPJ/IFEX) – The following is a 23 June 2000 CPJ press release: ANGOLA: Armed men threaten VOA office in Luanda New York, June 23, 2000 — Four armed men dressed in Angolan army uniforms attacked the Luanda office of the Voice of America (VOA) on the night of June 21, according to CPJ sources in […]
CPJ condemns shooting of Kosovo journalist
(CPJ/IFEX) – The following is a 22 June 2000 CPJ press release: New York, June 22, 2000 — Unknown gunmen shot an editor from Kosovo’s only multi-ethnic radio station in Pristina on Tuesday night, June 20, according to local and international news reports. Valentina Cukic, the editor of Serbian-language programming on Pristina’s Radio Kontakt, was […]
CPJ protests imprisonment of Kyrgyz journalist
(CPJ/IFEX) – In a 22 June 2000 letter to President Askar Akayev, CPJ expressed its concern that an independent journalist in his country has been jailed for insulting a judge. On 19 June, a Jalal-Abad city court sentenced Moldosali Ibraimov, a reporter with the independent regional weekly “Akyikat”, to two years imprisonment for criminal defamation. […]