Articles by Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ)
CPJ’s International Press Freedom Awards honour journalists from five countries
(CPJ/IFEX) – The following is a 24 November 1998 CPJ press release on the occasion of the presentation of its 1998 International Press Freedom Awards in New York City: CPJ’s International Press Freedom Awards Honor Journalists from Five Countries; C-SPAN’s Brian Lamb Receives Burton Benjamin Award for Contributions to Press Freedom The Committee to Protect […]
Two journalists arrested
(CPJ/IFEX) – CPJ is protesting the arrests of Mufti Abdul Hye, publisher of the monthly “Jago Mujahid”, and Manzur Ahmed, executive editor of the same magazine. On 18 November 1998, plainclothes police officers raided the editorial office of “Jago Mujahid” in Dhaka. The magazine had published articles encouraging Bangladeshi Muslims to launch an armed revolution […]
Journalist’s family wins lawsuit against SSS, federal government
(CPJ/IFEX) – On 17 November 1998, the Lagos Federal High Court, presided over by Justice Wilson Egbo-Egbo, granted a judgement in the amount of 3 million naira (US$ 35,294.00) to Arit Igiebor and Obosa Igiebor (the wife and five-year-old daughter of “Tell” editor-in-chief Nosa Igiebor) for trauma inflicted upon the plaintiffs during a raid of […]
Journalist missing; feared dead
(CPJ/IFEX) – On 3 September 1998, Belmonde Magloire Missinhoun, a citizen of Benin and owner of the financial newspaper “La Pointe Congo”, was last seen when he was arrested shortly after a traffic accident with a military vehicle in Kinshasa and transported to an unknown location. Police investigations into the journalist’s disappearance have yielded no […]
Journalist detained
(CPJ/IFEX) – In late August 1998, Loseke Lisumbou, editor of “La Libre Afrique,” was arrested by military security forces and detained at the National Security Council (CNS) headquarters in connection with an article published in the newspaper reporting on the “flight” from the country of Security Advisor and Chief of the CNS Mr. Kazadi. Although […]
Journalist severely assaulted
(CPJ/IFEX) – At approximately midnight on 29 October 1998, Ogen Kevin Aliro, chief sub-editor of the Kampala independent daily newspaper “The Monitor”, sustained a compound fracture to the collar bone, a fractured shoulder blade, and injuries to his face, arms, and legs in an assault carried out by approximately six unidentified men near Aliro’s residence […]
Four journalists attacked by security forces
(CPJ/IFEX) – CPJ is expressing its deep alarm over the beatings suffered by four journalists, who were attacked by security forces while covering street clashes between police and student demonstrators outside the parliament building in Jakarta on 11 November 1998. According to several sources, Saptono, a photographer with the official Antara News Agency, was attacked […]
CPJ writes to Fujimori concerning attacks on Peruvian journalists
(CPJ/IFEX) – The following is a 9 November 1998 letter to President Fujimori of Peru sent by CPJ regarding the ongoing climate of insecurity faced by Peruvian journalists: **For background information on recent attacks against the media in Peru, see IFEX alerts of 9 November, 6 November, 5 November, 30 October and 28 October 1998** […]