Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ)

CPJ is gravely concerned about a series of recent attacks on journalists covering the conflict in Chechnya. Two Chechen cameramen have been killed in recent weeks, while a Russian reporter and a French photojournalist have disappeared. Ramzan Mezhidov, a freelance cameraman working for the Moscow-based TV Tsentr, and Shamil Gigayev, a cameraman for the independent […]

In a major step forward for press freedom in Panama, the country’s Legislative Assembly approved a bill repealing some of the more onerous provisions of the country’s “gag laws”. The new bill, passed on the night of 30 November 1999 with the approval of 70 of the Legislative Assembly’s 71 members, repeals part of Law […]

(CPJ/IFEX) – The following is a 23 November 1999 CPJ press release: Journalists Receive International Press Freedom Awards For Courage in Reporting the News at New York City Ceremony “60 Minutes” Executive Producer Don Hewitt Also Honored at November 23rd Event New York, NY Nov. 23, 1999 – The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) presented […]

**Updates IFEX alert of 30 November 1999** (CPJ/IFEX) – CPJ is deeply concerned about the 28 November 1999 murder of cameramen Alberto Sánchez Tovar and Luis Alberto Rincon Solano outside the town of El Playon, in the north-eastern department of Santander. On the morning of 28 November, the two cameramen left Bucaramanga, capital of Santander […]

**Updates IFEX alerts of 25 November, 16 November, 3 November, 2 November, 28 October, 22 October, 20 October, 19 October and 18 October 1999** (CPJ/IFEX) – Rafael Marques, a freelance journalist and Angola representative of the Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa, was released on bail on 25 November 1999, after spending forty days in […]

(CPJ/IFEX) – CPJ is expressing its deep concern for the safety of Jesús Barraza, editor of the weekly magazine “Pulso” in San Luis Río Colorado, Sonora State. On 4 May 1999, at 9 p.m., as Barraza was leaving the “Pulso” offices, a well-dressed man walked up to him, and told him that Albino Quintero Meraz, […]

(CPJ/IFEX) – In a 17 November 1999 letter to Colombian President Andrés Pastrana, CPJ protested the 14 November bomb attack on the Cali offices of the daily “El Tiempo”. CPJ also expressed concern for the deteriorating press freedom climate and urged the president to place the safety of journalists on the agenda of the ongoing […]

(CPJ/IFEX) – CPJ is expressing its deep concern about the continued inclusion of a provision guaranteeing the right to “timely, truthful, and impartial information” in the draft constitution of Venezuela. This provision violates international standards for freedom of expression. **Updates IFEX alerts of 26 October and 5 October 1999** The National Constituent Assembly, which was […]