Articles by Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ)
Journalist detained under National Security Act
(CPJ/IFEX) – CPJ is deeply disturbed by reports that Naresh Kumar Kalita, news editor of the Assamese-language newspaper “Agradoot,” is now being detained under the National Security Act (NSA), which allows for preventive detention without trial. **Updates IFEX alerts of 25 February and 11 February 1999; for background on the Ajit Bhuyan case see IFEX […]
Journalist detained
(CPJ/IFEX) – According to CPJ’s information, journalist Manuel Vicente Peña Gomez was detained on 5 March 1999 for failure to pay the bail granted to him in relation to criminal defamation charges. CPJ was informed by its sources that three detectives of the Technical Investigation Corps (CTI), which falls under the Attorney General’s responsibility, came […]
Journalist rearrested
(CPJ/IFEX) – Fernando Quinova, Cabo Delgado province correspondent for the state-owned Mass Communications Institute, has been rearrested in Cabo Delgado after escaping in January 1999 from an illegal 23-day detention, during which police demanded that the journalist pay money in return for “the privilege of seeing the sun.” **Updates IFEX alerts of 3 February and […]
Hong Kong journalists detained
(CPJ/IFEX) – CPJ is concerned over reports that police in Shantou briefly detained twenty Hong Kong journalists who were attempting to cover an ongoing murder trial. The twenty reporters and photographers were among a large group of journalists from Hong Kong who were in Shantou to cover the trial of Li Yuhui on Monday. Li’s […]
Journalist interrogated, then released
(CPJ/IFEX) – On 3 March 1999, National Information Agency (ANR) agents interrogated Pomydor Muboyayi Mubanga, editor of the Kinshasa daily newspaper “Le Phare,” for four hours before releasing him. The agents questioned Muboyayi about why the newspaper had recently published articles reporting on actions of the special service of the chief of state. **Updates IFEX […]
Gag laws used against journalists
(CPJ/IFEX) – The following is a 4 March 1999 CPJ press release: **For related cases on Panamanian journalists see IFEX alerts of 30 December and 30 January 1998, 16 October, 22 September and 7 August 1997 and others** In a letter sent to Panamanian President Ernesto Pérez Balladares today, CPJ condemned his government’s use of […]
Fifteen journalists detained
(CPJ/IFEX) – CPJ is condemning the recent crackdown on the independent press in Cuba and the detention of fifteen independent journalists since 26 February 1999. Eleven of them remain in detention; two are missing and unaccounted for. ** Updates IFEX alert of 2 March 1999** According to local journalists in Cuba, the following journalists have […]
Journalist faces possible arrest
(CPJ/IFEX) – Pomydor Muboyayi Mubanga, editor of the Kinshasa daily newspaper “Le Phare,” has been “invited” to National Information Agency (ANR) headquarters for a meeting on Wednesday, 3 March 1999. CPJ sources report that Muboyayi may face arrest for a series of articles that have recently appeared in “Le Phare” reporting that decisions on currency […]