Articles by Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ)
Further information on beating and harassment of 34 journalists
(CPJ/IFEX) – The following 15 September 1998 letter from CPJ to Azeri President Heidar Aliyev provides further details and a list of additional journalists harassed and beaten on 12 September in Baku. His Excellency Heidar Aliyev President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Baku, Azerbaijan Fax: 011-99412-92-06-25 Your Excellency, The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is […]
CPJ protests murder of Iranian journalist Mahmoud Saremi; further details
(CPJ/IFEX) – In a 14 September 1998 letter, CPJ expressed outrage at the murder of Mahmoud Saremi, Afghanistan bureau chief for the official Iranian news agency, IRNA. Saremi, along with 10 Iranian diplomats, was first reported missing on 8 August, when Taliban fighters secured the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif. For over a month, Taliban officials […]
Further details and thoughts around murder of journalist Anatoly Levin-Utkin
(CPJ/IFEX) – The following letter, sent by CPJ to Russian President Boris Yeltsin on 4 September 1998, provides further details and thoughts around the murder of Anatoly Levin-Utkin, deputy editor of the new St. Petersburg weekly “Yuridichesky Peterburg Segodnya:” **Further to IFEX alert of 26 August 1998** “The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is deeply […]
CPJ condemns murder of editor Saiful Alam Mukul; further details
(CPJ/IFEX) – The following letter, sent by CPJ on 1 September 1998 to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wajed, provides further details on the “Daily Runner” newspaper and on possible motives for the killing of journalist Saiful Alam Mukul. **Further to IFEX alerts of 1 September and 31 August 1998** “Your Excellency: “The Committee to Protect […]
Threats made against President of International PEN
**This alert contains information further to an IFEX alert of 28 August 1998** (CPJ/IFEX) – On 28 August 1998, CPJ expressed its grave concern about a series of death threats made against Homero Aridjis, noted author and poet, president of PEN International, president of the Group of 100, and columnist for the daily “Reforma”. The […]
Colombian journalist Nelson Osorio Patiño killed
(CPJ/IFEX) – According to CPJ, journalist Nelson Osorio Patiño was killed on the morning of 27 August 1998 at 7:50 a.m. (local time) as he waited for a car repair shop to open near Avenida Boyuca in western Bogotá (the capital city). A man walked up to Osorio and shot him twice in the head […]
Government expands censorship regulations
(CPJ/IFEX) – In a 20 August 1998 letter, the CPJ expressed deep dismay over President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga’s government’s expansion of censorship regulations governing media coverage of the civil war between the government of Sri Lanka and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). On 17 August, the Defense Ministry imposed an immediate ban on […]
Further details on attack on journalist Albert Cheng
(CPJ/IFEX) – Prominent radio talk show host and political commentator Albert Cheng, who was brutally assaulted on 19 August 1998, is now in “very stable and satisfactory condition,” according to his doctors at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital. At about 6h30, two unidentified men attacked Cheng with a meat cleaver, slashing him repeatedly in the parking […]