Articles by Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ)
Journalist Juan Carlos Recio Martinez starts serving sentence of forced labour
(CPJ/IFEX) – On 15 June 1998, journalist Juan Carlos Recio Martinez began serving a sentence of twelve months of forced labour. Recio Martinez was convicted in February for “Acts against the Security of the State” and sentenced to one year of agricultural labour (see Background, below). **Updates IFEX alerts of 20 and 6 February 1998** […]
Journalist Christine Anyanwu released from prison in Kaduna
(CPJ/IFEX) – CPJ sources in Lagos and Kaduna confirmed that Christine Anyanwu, publisher and editor-in-chief of the now-defunct “The Sunday Magazine”, was released from prison in Kaduna during the evening of 16 June 1998. **Updates IFEX alerts dated 16 June 1998, 18 August and 23 June 1997; 27 October, 1 August, 22 May 1995; and […]
Independent newspaper threatened with closure
(CPJ/IFEX) – The Belarusian State Committee on the Press issued a warning on 1 June 1998 to the Minsk-based independent weekly “Zdravy Smysl” for allegedly providing “distorted information” to its readers that could result in the paper’s closure. The warning came after “Zdravy Smysl” reported that Belarus President Aleksander Lukashenko was named one of the […]
Journalist Christine Anyanwu expected to be officially released in the coming days
(CPJ/IFEX) – CPJ sources in Lagos and Kaduna confirmed that as of early evening on 16 June 1998, Christine Anyanwu, publisher and editor-in-chief of the now-defunct “The Sunday Magazine”, remains in prison in Kaduna despite the 15 June announcement of her release on the orders of General Abdulsalam Abubakar. Anyanwu’s colleagues believe that the processing […]
Journalist Christine Anyanwu released
(CPJ/IFEX) – On 15 June 1998, Christine Anyanwu, publisher and editor-in-chief of the now-defunct “The Sunday Magazine”, who was arrested on 31 May 1995 for her reporting on an alleged coup plot in March 1995, was released on the orders of General Abdulsalam Abubakar, Chairman of the Provisional Ruling Council. **Updates IFEX alerts dated 18 […]
Reporter Georgy Chanya killed in May clashes in breakaway Abkhazia
(CPJ/IFEX) – Georgy Chanya, a reporter for the independent Georgian daily “Rezonants”, was killed on 27 May 1998 while covering renewed fighting between Abkhaz rebels and Georgian guerrillas near Gali in the separatist region of Abkhazia, CPJ is now able to confirm. According to Amiran Dzotsenidze, deputy editor of “Rezonants”, the 25-year-old Chanya and two […]
Excessive taxation imposed on press
(CPJ/IFEX) – On 3 June 1998, the Income Tax Department made public an excessive 383% increase in tax assessments on publishers for this fiscal year beginning in June 1998. The tax assessments appear to have been determined arbitrarily without the requisite financial audits. All print media, whether they were operational or not during the 10-month […]
CPJ protests imminent jailing of Turkish journalist Ragip Duran sentenced for 1994 interview with PKK leader
(CPJ/IFEX) – According to CPJ, Ragip Duran, a veteran Turkish reporter who has been sentenced to prison in clear violation of internationally recognized standards for a free press, has been summoned to report to a state prosecutor’s office on Tuesday, 16 June 1998, to begin serving a 10-month prison term for violating Article 7 of […]