Articles by Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ)
Photographers attacked by police
(CPJ/IFEX) – CPJ is deeply disturbed by the latest brutal assault on photojournalists committed by the Dhaka police. On Friday 22 October 1999, riot police were dispatched to subdue a demonstration held in the capital by Islamic activists. The police turned their batons on two newspaper photographers who were documenting their treatment of the protesters. […]
Powerful Panamanians conspire to smear local editor
(CPJ/IFEX) – CPJ is alarmed about a defamation campaign being waged against Gustavo Gorriti, the Peruvian-born associate editor of the leading Panama City daily “La Prensa”. Earlier this month, a mysterious organization called the “Committee for Freedom of Expression in Panama” put up posters all around Panama City that showed Gorriti’s face with the slogan, […]
Palestinian journalist describes harassment, restrictions on free movement
(CPJ/IFEX) – The following is a 25 October 1999 CPJ press release: **Updates IFEX alerts of 22 October 1999, 4 August and 11 May 1998** For Immediate Release Palestinian Journalist Describes Harassment, Restrictions on Free Movement New York, N.Y., October 25, 1999 – The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), the New York-based independent press freedom […]
Radio journalist murdered
(CPJ/IFEX) – CPJ has expressed its profound indignation about the 21 October 1999 brutal murder of radio journalist Rodolfo Julio Torres, in the town of San Onofre, Sucre Department. CPJ has urged President Andrés Pastrana Arango in the strongest possible terms to launch an exhaustive investigation into this lethal attack on press freedom, the third […]
CPJ concerned about implications of director’s transfer
(CPJ/IFEX) -CPJ is concerned about the implications of this week’s abrupt transfer of Cheung Man-yee from her post as director of Radio Television Hong Kong (RTHK). Cheung has been a staunch defender of press freedom during her thirteen-year tenure as director of RTHK, a publicly funded broadcast agency with a long tradition of editorial autonomy. […]
CPJ protests ongoing travel restrictions on Palestinian journalist
(CPJ/IFEX) – CPJ is expressing its profound concern about Taher Shriteh, a veteran Gaza-based reporter for “The New York Times”, the British Broadcasting Corporation, and the Japanese daily “Yomiuri Simbun”, whose freedom of movement has been severely restricted by Israeli authorities. **Updates IFEX alerts of 4 August and 11 May 1998** CPJ believes that these […]
CPJ condemns assassination of journalist
(CPJ/IFEX) – The following is a 21 October 1999 CPJ press release: **Updates IFEX alerts of 21 October 1999** For Immediate Release October 21, 1999 CPJ Condemns Assassination of Turkish Journalist Calls on Prime Minister to Launch Immediate Investigation and to Bring Perpetrators to Justice New York, N.Y., October 21,1999-The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), […]
CPJ disturbed by violent attack on journalist
(CPJ/IFEX) – CPJ is deeply disturbed by the 22 October 1999 violent attack against Zeljko Kopanja, the founder and chief editor of “Nezavisne Novine”, the largest independent Serb daily in Bosnia-Hercegovina. **Updates IFEX alert of 22 October 1999 The 45-year-old Kopanja lost both his legs when a car bomb exploded in front of his home […]