Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ)

(CPJ/RSF/IFEX) – The following is a joint CPJ – RSF press release: **For more information on the new Cuban law see IFEX alert of 17 February 1999; for background on individual cases covered since 1 January 1999 see IFEX alerts of 12 March, 11 March, 5 March, 2 March, 24 February, 17 February, 5 February, […]

(CPJ/IFEX) – CPJ is deeply concerned about the recent threat to close seven independent newspapers for their coverage of the opposition Central Electoral Committee’s attempts to organize presidential elections in May of this year. **Updates IFEX alerts of 3 March and 18 February 1999** At a 15 February 1999 press conference, Michael Podgainy, chairman of […]

(CPJ/IFEX) – On 14 March 1999, airport security agents arrested Andre Ipakala and Modeste Mutinga, editors for the private daily newspapers “La Reference Plus” and “Le Potentiel,” respectively, at the Ndjili airport in Kinshasa upon their return from Pretoria, South Africa, where they had attended a peace conference on the conflict in the Democratic Republic […]

(CPJ/IFEX) – CPJ is outraged by the 14 March 1999 abduction and beating of Sri Lal Priyantha, the defense correspondent of the weekly “Lakbima” newspaper in Colombo. Priyantha, who is known for his reporting on corruption in the military and the police, was kidnapped from his boarding house at approximately 4:00 a.m. by ten men […]

(CPJ/IFEX) – CPJ is greatly alarmed by the arrest and detention of dissident writer Nguyen Thanh Giang, reportedly for possessing documents critical of the Communist Party. Giang, a prominent geologist whose articles on corruption within the Communist Party have frequently been published on the Internet and in newspapers published by Vietnamese living in exile, was […]

(CPJ/IFEX) – CPJ has written Zambian President Frederick Chiluba to strongly condemn the arrests of Ms. Lubasi Mwangala Katundu, Joe Kaunda, Goodson Machona, Amos Malupenga, Brighton Phiri, and Kelvin Shimo, reporters for the independent daily newspaper “The Post”, and the current siege of the newspaper’s editorial offices and its printing press, where editor in chief, […]

(CPJ/IFEX) – The Chachacha Road editorial offices of the independent daily newspaper “The Post” are under siege after being surrounded by police who will not allow the newspaper’s employees to leave the premises. Reporter Sheik Chifuwe and the entire production staff, including five graphic designers and three proofreaders, are being held against their will without […]

(CPJ/IFEX) – On 8 March 1999, Phillip Neville, managing editor of the independent “Standard Times,” was released from detention. **Updates IFEX alert of 25 February 1999** Background Information On 24 February 1999, plainclothes police officers arrested Neville on the same day of an article titled “Jo Demby’s Partner to Kill Kabbah and Jonah.” The article […]