Articles by Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ)
CPJ protests Azeri media law
**Updates IFEX alert of 8 December 1999** (CPJ/IFEX) – CPJ is greatly concerned by the Azerbaijani parliament’s 9 December 1999 adoption of a new media law that severely restricts press freedom in Azerbaijan. Although the new law formally forbids censorship, it outlines several provisions that limit the internationally-recognized right of journalists to practice their profession. […]
Economic crackdown on Serbian press continues
In the latest official crackdown on local independent media organizations, financial police blocked accounts and froze assets of the Belgrade daily, Glas Javnosti, and of a printing company, ABC Grafika, this week. The organizations are charged with failing to pay taxes, a claim both deny. Managers at the newspaper and the printing company say their […]
Local media fined US$32,300 in defamation case
**Updates IFEX alerts of 8 December 1999** (CPJ/IFEX) – The following is a CPJ news alert: New York, December 8, 1999 — The Belgrade daily newspapers Blic and Danas and the Studio B television station have been fined a total of 970,000 dinars (about $32,300) in a defamation case brought against them under the Serbian […]
Decision expected in Serbian media trial
**Updates IFEX alerts of 8 December 1999** (CPJ/IFEX) – The following is a CPJ news alert: Decision expected later today in Serbian media trial New York, December 8, 1999 — Editors from the Belgrade daily newspapers Blic and Danas and Belgrade’s Studio-B television station appeared in a Belgrade criminal court today to answer defamation charges […]
CPJ condemns legal assault on Belgrade newspaper
**Updates IFEX alert of 8 December 1999** (CPJ/IFEX) – The following is a 7 December 1999 CPJ press release: CPJ CONDEMNS LEGAL ASSAULT ON BELGRADE NEWSPAPER New York, December 7, 1999 — Editors from the Belgrade daily Blic have been ordered to appear in criminal court tomorrow morning to answer defamation charges brought under Serbia’s […]
Cameraman killed in leftist rebel attack
On Saturday 4 December 1999, Pablo Emilio Medina Motta, a cameraman with the regional television station TV Garzon, was killed by multiple shots to the head and back when more than 100 leftist guerrillas stormed the town of Gigante in Huila Department. Six other people died and twenty were wounded in the attack. Medina Motta, […]
CPJ concerned about recent death threats against journalist
**Updates IFEX alerts of 30 November and 26 November 1999** (CPJ/IFEX) – CPJ is deeply concerned about recent death threats against “Sunday Standard” reporter Ray Choto. The threats began in November, shortly after Choto returned to Zimbabwe after collecting an international press freedom award in Canada, along with his colleague Mark Chavunduka, editor of the […]
Journalists released, still face libel charges
**Updates IFEX alerts of 16 August and 21 April 1999** (CPJ/IFEX) – The following is a CPJ press release: For Immediate Release December 6, 1999 CPJ Welcomes Release of Egyptian Journalists, Renews Call to End Criminal Prosecutions New York, N.Y., December 6, 1999 – Three Egyptian journalists jailed for libel in August were freed late […]