Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ)

**Updates IFEX alerts of 24 May, 3 April, 31, 23 and 15 March, 1 February, 28 and 7 January 2000, 4 October, 30 and 10 September, 19 July, 31 and 22 May, 25 March, 24, 12, 11, 10, 9 and 3 February, 29, 27, 25, 22, 21, 18, 15 and 13 January 1999** (CPJ/IFEX) – […]

(CPJ/IFEX) – In a 19 May 2000 letter to Attorney General Adolfo González Rodas, CPJ expressed great concerned for the safety of journalists in Guatemala, based on information the organisation received from the Centro para la Defensa de Libertad de Expresion (CEDEX), a Guatemalan press freedom organization. According to a CEDEX communiqué sent on 18 […]

**Updates IFEX alerts of 15, 12 and 10 May 2000** (CPJ/IFEX) – The following is a 22 May 2000 CPJ press release: New York, May 22, 2000 — A leading Serbian investigative journalist, Miroslav Filipovic, was imprisoned again today, following a hearing at a military court in Nis in southern Serbia. Filipovic was interrogated for […]

**Updates IFEX alerts of 22 and 4 May 2000** (CPJ/IFEX) – In a 22 May 2000 letter to President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga, CPJ expressed profound dismay over his government’s use of censorship regulations to restrict coverage of the war against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). The organisation is particularly alarmed by the recent […]

**Updates IFEX alerts of 15 and 1 May 2000** (CPJ/IFEX) – In a 19 May 2000 letter to President Heidar Aliyev, CPJ stated that it was deeply disturbed over the recent closure of the Baku-based magazine “Monitor Weekly” and by His Excellency’s continued refusal to review the legality of the Interior Ministry’s October 1999 takeover […]

**Updates IFEX alert of 16 May 2000** (CPJ/IFEX) – In a 19 May 2000 letter to President Ahmed Tejan Kabbah, CPJ stated that it is deeply disturbed by recent serious press freedom violations in Sierra Leone. It is particularly concerned about the continued illegal detention of Abdoul Kouyateh, acting editor of the private Freetown weekly […]

*Updates IFEX alerts of 15 and 4 May 2000* (CPJ/IFEX) – In a 17 May 2000 letter to King Muhammad VI, CPJ expressed grave concern about government restrictions on press freedom in Morocco during the year 2000. During the past four months, Moroccan authorities have taken punitive measures against the press, including the censorship of […]

(CPJ/IFEX) – The following is a 17 May 2000 CPJ press release: POLICE STORMING OF FOUR MEDIA OUTLETS IN BELGRADE SPARKS INTERNATIONAL OUTRAGE New York, May 17, 2000 — This morning’s police raid on four independent media outlets housed in a Belgrade office building has outraged journalists and opposition forces in Yugoslavia and prompted a […]