Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ)

(CPJ/IFEX) – On 16 May 1998, between midnight and 1:00 a.m. (local time), editor Deissa Sall and photographer Cire Sow of the independent “Nouvel Horizon” were assaulted by socialist militants in the home of Abdoulaye Diack, head of the Socialist Party in the Kaolack legislature (in eastern Senegal). The journalists were covering the electoral campaign […]

(CPJ/IFEX) – The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has expressed concern over the fact that Yunus Yosfiah, the newly appointed Minister of Information, has been implicated in one of the most brutal attacks ever on journalists: the October 1975 murder of five reporters during the Indonesian invasion of East Timor. In October 1975 Yosfiah was […]

(CPJ/IFEX) – According to information released by the Alliance of Independent Journalists (Aliansi Jurnalis Independen or AJI) on 16 May 1998, there have been a recent series of violent and indiscriminate attacks by security forces against Indonesian journalists. The frequency of such attacks has increased over the past month as the level of student and […]

(CPJ/IFEX) – CPJ strongly protests the manner in which an official tender of broadcast frequencies was conducted by the Yugoslav Ministry of Telecommunications on 16 May 1998. The result of this flawed tender process has been to deny the right of 178 independent television and radio stations to operate, and to impose exorbitant fees on […]

(CPJ/IFEX)- On 13 May 1998, government authorities ordered that ten private newspapers cease operating for non-payment of taxes. The newspapers affected by the order are: “L’Anfani”, “L’Alternative”, “Le Citoyen”, “Le Flic”, “L’Enquete”, “Paon Africain”, “Le Democrat”, “Haske”, “Le Republicain”, “Tribune du Peuple”, and “Le Soleil.” “Le Republicain” was closed down despite the fact that they […]

(CPJ/IFEX) – On 15 May 1998, Peter Boehm, correspondent for the German newspaper “Die Tagezeitung” (TAZ), was deported to Germany. Boehm was arrested while photographing a volcano on 12 April 1998 in Goma (located in the eastern region of the country). He was detained in the civil prison in Kinshasa and charged with “espionage.” Authorities […]

(CPJ/IFEX) – CPJ is greatly concerned about the criminal libel trial initiated by Croatian President Franjo Tudjman against editor-in-chief Viktor Ivancic and correspondent Marinko Culic of the independent weekly “Feral Tribune”, which was scheduled to resume on Monday, 18 May 1998, in Zagreb. **Updates IFEX alerts of 19 December, 21 October and 6 May 1997, […]

(CPJ/IFEX) – According to CPJ, journalist Bernabe Cortes was murdered on the morning of 19 May 1998, by several gunmen in Cali. Cortes was a reporter with the nightly newsprogram Noticias CVN, broadcast on the Telepacifico network. He reported frequently on such sensitive topics as drug trafficking, corruption, and recent negotiations between the Colombian Revolutionary […]