Articles by Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ)
TV station harassed
(CPJ/IFEX) – CPJ is greatly troubled by the ongoing official harassment of STB TV, an independent station that reaches eighty percent of the television-watching population of Ukraine. **Updates IFEX alerts of 28 July, 9 June and 5 March 1999** For nearly six months, STB has endured repeated hostile inspections by at least nine government agencies, […]
CPJ condemns brutal murder of journalist
(CPJ/IFEX) – CPJ is strongly condemning the 21 September 1999 brutal murder of Sander Thoenes, a Dutch freelance journalist on assignment in Dili, East Timor. **Updates IFEX alerts of 22 September and 21 September 1999** Thoenes, a Jakarta-based stringer for “The Financial Times”, “The Christian Science Monitor” and “Vrij Nederland”, was riding on a motorcycle […]
CPJ report on reactions to censoring of media hate speech in Kosovo
(CPJ/IFEX) – The following is a 22 September 1999 announcement of a CPJ report on reactions to international efforts to censor media hate speech in Kosovo: **For background on the media control system see IFEX alerts of 13 August, 23 June and 22 June 1999** CIVILITY BY DECREE: WHY MANY KOSOVO JOURNALISTS WANT CENSORSHIP Read […]
CPJ condemns journalist’s assassination, other journalists threatened
(CPJ/IFEX) – In a letter to President Pastrana, CPJ has condemned the 16 September 1999 murder of Guzmán Quintero Torres, editor-in-chief of the daily “El Pilon” in Valledupar, capital of the northern Cesar Department. The president was urged to ensure that those responsible for this heinous crime are brought to justice. At about 10 p.m. […]
Journalist charged
(CPJ/IFEX) – During the week of 13 September 1999, a reporter with Inter Press Service (IPS), learned that she had been formally charged with “insulting” the Turkish military -a crime under Article 159 of the Turkish Penal Code. If convicted, she faces between one and six years in prison. **Updates IFEX alerts of 21 September, […]
Journalist deported
(CPJ/IFEX) – Allan Nairn, the American journalist detained by Indonesian authorities on 14 September 1999, was deported from Indonesia to Singapore on 20 September. He flew out from Bali, having been flown from West Timor to Bali on Sunday 19 September. Nairn told Associated Press and Agence France Presse reporters in Singapore that he believed […]
CPJ protests harassment of newspaper, censorship
(CPJ/IFEX) – CPJ has expressed its deep concern about continuing state restrictions on the press in Yemen. CPJ is particularly dismayed by the authorities’ ongoing harassment of the thrice-weekly newspaper “Al-Ayyam” and the closure of the opposition weekly “Al-Shoura”. CPJ has called on President Saleh to assume a leadership role to help reverse state restrictions […]
Two missing journalists rescued in East Timor
(CPJ/IFEX) – British journalist Jon Swain and American photographer Chip Hires, who had been hiding in the hills near Dili after their car was attacked by militia on the morning of 21 September 1999, have been rescued by Australian troops, according to the BBC quoting Brigadier David Richards, the British Forces Commander in East Timor. […]