Articles by Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ)
CPJ protests censorship of “Time” magazine
(CPJ/IFEX) – CPJ is deeply concerned about the actions taken last week by a customs official in Calcutta to censor the 21 February 2000 edition of “Time”, an international weekly newsmagazine. On 16 February, customs agents at the Calcutta airport blocked the distribution of 3,000 issues of “Time” magazine because they contained a one-page interview […]
CPJ protests eighteen-month jail sentence handed down to journalist
**Updates IFEX alert of 16 February 2000** (CPJ/IFEX) – CPJ is shocked by the eighteen-month jail sentence handed down to Johann Wandetto, a reporter for the daily “The People” newspaper, based in Kitale, Rift Valley Province. Wandetto was charged in the magistrate’s court on 15 February 2000 with publishing an “alarmist report” in the 6 […]
CPJ condemns newspaper suspension, banishment of journalist
**Updates previous IFEX alert of 24 February 2000** (CPJ/IFEX) – CPJ is protesting the 22 February 2000 suspension of the opposition weekly newspaper “Al-Wahdawi” and the banishment of Jamal Amer, the paper’s columnist and editor, from the journalistic profession. On Tuesday 22 February, a Sanaa court ordered the thirty-day suspension of “Al-Wahdawi” and permanently banned […]
New and even more draconian media bill signed into law; attacks on media condemned
**Updates IFEX alerts of 14, 10, 7 and 2 February 2000, 1 November and 15 October 1999** (CPJ/IFEX) – CPJ is greatly disturbed by President Heidar Aliyev’s government’s sustained and often violent harassment of the opposition newspaper “Yeni Musavat” and the independent station Sara Radio/TV. On 7 February 2000, at approximately 4 p.m. (local time), […]
Journalist remains in captivity
The following is a 15 February 2000 CPJ press release: COLOMBIA: JOURNALIST REMAINS IN CAPTIVITY New York, Feb. 15, 2000—CPJ is deeply concerned about the safety of Guillermo Cortés, editorial director of “Hora Cero,” a nightly television news program broadcast on Canal A in Bogotá, who was kidnapped on January 22. While no one has […]
CPJ special report on challenges faced by the press
The following is a 14 February 2000 CPJ press release announcing the issuing of the organisationâs special report entitled “Pakistan–The Press for Change”: For Immediate Release: CPJ ISSUES SPECIAL REPORT: “PAKISTAN–THE PRESS FOR CHANGE” Historically Vigorous Press Survived Increasingly Tyrannical Ruler, Now Faces Challenges Under Military Dictatorship Full Report on Web site: www.cpj.org New York, […]
Call for lifting of restrictions on Palestinian reporter
The following is a 31 January 2000 CPJ press release: For Immediate Release January 31, 2000 Journalists Appeal to Israeli Prime Minister Barak to Lift Restrictions on Award-Winning Palestinian Reporter New York, N.Y., January 31, 2000 – Twenty-seven prominent U.S., European, and Israeli journalists called on Prime Minister Ehud Barak today to end Israeli government […]
Journalists harassed in West Timor
(CPJ/IFEX) – CPJ is deeply concerned about the recent harassment of three Portuguese television journalists, who were detained for three days by police in the Indonesian province of West Timor before being forced to leave the country. On 3 February 2000, the SIC television crew — reporter João Ferreira, news editor Rita Nolasco, and cameraman […]