Articles by Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ)
Journalist threatened with prosecution
(CPJ/IFEX) – CPJ is deeply concerned over reports that Indonesian authorities intend to prosecute American journalist Allan Nairn for entering the country in violation of immigration laws. Nairn’s name appears on a “blacklist” compiled by the Indonesian armed forces, barring the journalist from reporting in Indonesia. Nairn – a freelance journalist who filed regular reports […]
Journalists released, CPJ responds to amnesty law
(CPJ/IFEX) – CPJ has written to Prime Minister Bulent Ecevit in response to the Turkish parliament’s August approval of an amnesty law (law 4454 for 1999) that will secure the release of a number of jailed journalists and writers imprisoned on the basis of their published work and which is expected to temporarily cancel dozens […]
CPJ concerned about detention of journalist
(CPJ/IFEX) – CPJ has expressed grave concern about the case of Cosette Elias Ibrahim, a Lebanese journalism student and freelance reporter who was abducted by Israeli forces in the town of Rumaish in Israeli-occupied south Lebanon. **Updates IFEX alert of 14 September 1999** On or about 2 September 1999, Ibrahim, a student at the Lebanese […]
CPJ protests arrest of TV journalist
(CPJ/IFEX) – CPJ has expressed its deep concern about the arrest of Maher al-Dessouki, a television journalist with the independent Al-Quds Educational TV station. **Updates IFEX alert of 17 September 1999** On the morning of 15 September 1999, Palestinian Preventive Security Services (PSS) agents arrested al-Dessouki in the West Bank city of Ramallah. According to […]
American journalist remains in custody
(CPJ/IFEX) – American journalist Allan Nairn is still in official Indonesian custody, nearly three days after he was first detained by Indonesian military officers in Dili, East Timor. Nairn was flown out of East Timor yesterday aboard a military jet and taken to Kupang, West Timor. **Updates IFEX alerts of 15 September and 14 September […]
Detained American journalist flown out of East Timor
(CPJ/IFEX) – CPJ has learned that Indonesian military authorities flew American journalist Allan Nairn out of East Timor on a military jet on 15 September 1999, having detained him for more than twenty-four hours in the capital city of Dili. He was taken to Kupang, West Timor. **Updates IFEX alert of 14 September 1999** Nairn […]
CPJ outraged by journalist’s imprisonment
(CPJ/IFEX) – CPJ is outraged by the Malaysian Court of Appeal’s decision to imprison “Far Eastern Economic Review” correspondent Murray Hiebert for contempt of court. Hiebert’s sentencing makes Malaysia the only Commonwealth country to have imprisoned a journalist on contempt charges in half a century, according to his lawyers. **Updates IFEX alerts of 13 September […]
Continued detention of publisher and reporter
(CPJ/IFEX) – CPJ has protested in the strongest terms against the continued detention of Raphael Lakpe and Jean Khalil Sylla, the publisher and reporter, respectively, at the independent daily newspaper “Le Populaire”. **Updates IFEX alerts of 27 August, 30 June, 10 June, 4 June and 2 June 1999** In the early hours of 28 April […]