Articles by Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ)
Journalist appears in court
(CPJ/IFEX) – At 10:00 a.m. (local time) on 10 December 1998, BBC reporter Winston Ojukutu Macauley appeared in Magistrates Court #1A, presided over by Magistrate Naomi Tunis, where he was formerly charged with “false publication contrary to Article 98 of the Penal Code of 1998.” Macauley, who was represented by attorneys Jenkins Johnson and Alusine […]
Journalists arrested; journalist goes into hiding, more arrests feared imminient
(CPJ/IFEX) – On 8 December 1998, at approximately 5:00 p.m. (local time), two plain clothes officers of the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) arrested Winston Ojukutu Macaulley, Freetown correspondent for the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), at the Sierra Leone Telecommunications Center in Freetown. The journalist was taken to the CID headquarters, where he is currently being […]
Journalist arrested
(CPJ/IFEX) – At approximately 6:00 p.m. (local time) on 8 December 1998, Sulaiman Momodu, a reporter with the independent “Concord Times” newspaper and a stringer for the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), was arrested by plain clothes detectives at his residence in Freetown and transported to the Criminal Investigation Department. **New case and update to IFEX […]
CPJ appeals in Chinese Internet case
(CPJ/IFEX) – The following is a letter sent by CPJ to President of the State Council Jiang Zemin on 9 December 1998 further to the detention of Lin Hai, a software entrepreneur tried on 4 December in Shanghai on charges of attempting to overthrow the state by providing e-mail addresses to a dissident Chinese magazine: […]
CPJ goes to Belarus to present International Press Freedom Award to journalist Pavel Sheremet, banned from traveling to New York
(CPJ/IFEX) – The following is a 8 December 1998 CPJ press release on the occasion of its trip to Minsk, Belarus, to present an International Press Freedom Award to journalist Pavel Sheremet: **Updates IFEX alert of 25 November 1998** Representatives of the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) today hand-delivered its 1998 International Press Freedom Award […]
Journalists attacked, printing press vandalised, reporter harassed
(CPJ/IFEX) – On 23 November 1998, a group of former combatants in the on-going conflict in the country stormed the Sabannoh Printing Press, attacked journalists and Sabannoh employees, destroyed copies of the independent “Inquirer” and “The News” newspapers, and vandalized printing machinery. The attack was in response to a 21 November front-page story published in […]
CPJ warns SLAJ of dangers to press freedom in creation of media council
(CPJ/IFEX) – The following is the text of a letter sent by CPJ to the president and the members of the Sierra Leone Association of Journalists (SLAJ) in regard to the possible formation of a media council in the country: December 5, 1998 Frank Kposowa, President & Members Sierra Leone Association of Journalists (SLAJ) Dear […]
Journalist still detained
(CPJ/IFEX) – On 19 October 1998, Jean Marie Kanku, journalist, administrator and finance director of the independent newspaper “L’Alerte”, was arrested in Kinshasa and detained at the Kalamu police headquarters. There, he was interrogated about an article appearing in the 6 October edition of the newspaper, titled “Gaetan Kakudji in the Arms of Z’Ahidi Ngoma […]