Articles by Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ)
Angolan minister responds to CPJ concerns over increasing repression of media
(CPJ/IFEX) – The following is a copy of a letter received by CPJ from the Angolan Minister of Social Communications, Pedro Hendrik Vaal Neto, written in Luanda on June 23, 1999. The translation is an unofficial one, done by the Angolan Embassy in Washington DC: **Updates IFEX alerts of 9 July, 7 July and 10 […]
Journalist still under threat
(CPJ/IFEX) – Please find attached a letter from Jesús Barraza, editor of the weekly Pulso in San Luis Río Colorado, Sonora State, Mexico. **Updates IFEX alerts of 15 June, 10 June, 14 May and 13 May 1999** As mentioned in CPJ’s May 13 and June 14 letters to President Ernesto Zedillo, Barraza’s life has recently […]
Increasing repression of the media in Angola
(CPJ/IFEX) – CPJ is gravely concerned over the increasing repression of the media in Angola. **Updates IFEX alerts as noted in text** Since late 1998, when the breakdown of the Lusaka Protocol peace accords led to a resumption of the civil war, there has been a marked increase in both the frequency and the seriousness […]
CPJ protests media restrictions
(CPJ/IFEX) – CPJ is deeply concerned over your administration’s decision to impose draconian regulations governing all media coverage of the ethnic tensions there. **Updates IFEX alert of 30 June 1999** On 28 June, the Governor General issued an amendment to the Emergency Powers Act of 1999 that threatens journalists who violate state-imposed reporting restrictions with […]
CPJ protests banning of “Al-Quds al-Arabi”
(CPJ/IFEX) – In a 30 June 1999 letter to Syrian President Hafez al-Asad, CPJ protested the banning of the London-based daily “Al-Quds al-Arabi” in Syria on 29 June. **Updates IFEX alert of 29 June 1999** On 29 June, Abdel Bari Atwan, the newspaper’s editor in chief, received a faxed letter from the government-run Syrian Distribution […]
CPJ receives clarification of Taliban stance on journalists
(CPJ/IFEX) – On 28 June 1999, CPJ received assurances from the Taliban’s representative in New York, Abdul Hakeem Mujahid, that members of the media will not be punished for disseminating information deemed “anti-Taliban.” On 24 June, CPJ sent a letter to the Taliban’s leader, Mullah Mohammad Omar, expressing its concern regarding a 22 June announcement […]
Mubarak puts the press on trial
(CPJ/IFEX) – The following is the text of a 28 June 1999 CPJ briefing: On July 1, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak will meet in Washington, D.C., with President Clinton-the Egyptian leader’s third such visit to the White House in the last four years. The scheduled meeting comes at a time when Egyptian authorities have stepped […]
CPJ protests legal action against Bosnian journalist
(CPJ/IFEX) – CPJ is gravely concerned about the recent convictions of Senad Avdic, editor-in-chief of the Sarajevo-based independent weekly magazine “Slobodna Bosna” on charges of criminal libel. On 23 June 1999, Judge Mirsad Shehovic of the Sarajevo Municipal Court sentenced Avdic to a two-month suspended jail term on charges of criminal libel. If he is […]