Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ)

(CPJ/IFEX) – The following is a 17 May 1999 CPJ press release: **Updates IFEX alerts of 17 May, 14 May and 4 March 1999** For Immediate Release CPJ Condemns Yemen’s Clampdown on the Press Letter to President Saleh Urges End to Arrests and Legal Harassment of Journalists New York, N.Y., May 17, 1999-The Committee to […]

(CPJ/IFEX) – At approximately 9:00 a.m. on 13 May 1999, Criminal Investigation Department (CID) police officers detained three journalists for the independent daily “The Monitor” – editor in chief Wafula Oguttu, editor Charles Onyango-Obbo, and news editor David Ouma Balikow – at the newspaper’s Kampala offices, and transported them to CID headquarters, also located in […]

(CPJ/IFEX) – CPJ is expressing profound concern about the Monday, 10 May 1999, brutal attack on Saif al-Hadheri, the editor-in-chief of the weekly “Al-Shumua’”. **Updates IFEX alert of 14 May 1999** At about eight o’clock on the evening of May 10, four masked men carrying arms stormed Hadheri’s home in the Naseer section of Sana’a […]

(CPJ/IFEX) – CPJ is expressing its sorrow over the 13 May 1999 murder of Ricardo Gangeme, publisher and editor of the weekly magazine “El Informador Chubutense”, in the town of Trelew, Chubut Province. CPJ hopes that the investigation will soon reach a successful conclusion. **Updates IFEX alerts of 14 and 13 May 1999** At 1:28 […]

(CPJ/IFEX) – The following is a CPJ update on recent events in FRY: **Updates IFEX alerts of 12 May, 10 May, 7 May 1999 and others** CPJ Update: Journalists Caught in the Crossfire The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), a nonpartisan organization dedicated to safeguarding press freedom around the world, has documented further maltreatment of […]

(CPJ/IFEX) – The following is a CPJ briefing on Tunisia: May 1999 TUNISIA: A DECADE OF STIFLING THE PRESS A CPJ BRIEFING On May 3, 1999, World Press Freedom Day, the Committee to Protect Journalists, for the second consecutive year, named Tunisian President Zine Abdine Ben Ali as one of the world’s top 10 Enemies […]

(CPJ/IFEX) – CPJ is gravely concerned about the imprisonment of Fuad Qahramanli, a journalist and opposition activist who was sentenced to 18 months’ imprisonment in November 1998 for having written an article which the government of President Heidar Aliyev deemed to be a “call to social disorder.” **Updates IFEX alerts of 5 May and 20 […]

(CPJ/IFEX) – CPJ is troubled to learn that the Supreme Economic Court of Belarus rejected the appeal filed by the independent newspaper “Svobodnie Novosti” seeking to overturn an official warning it received in February 1999. The warning by the State Press Committee, which was also issued to six other newspapers, forbade the newspaper from publishing […]