Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ)

(CPJ/IFEX) – CPJ wishes to use the occasion of President Clinton’s upcoming talks with President Saparmurad Niyazov to focus attention on the repressive media conditions in Turkmenistan. CPJ is greatly alarmed by the total state control of the media in Turkmenistan, the lack of an independent press or any alternative reporting and a general climate […]

(CPJ/IFEX) – At 2:30 p.m. on 20 April 1998, the Ikeja, Lagos offices of the Independent Communications Network Limited (publishers of “TheNews” and “TEMPO” magazines, and the afternoon daily “P.M. News”) were raided by 46 State Security Service (SSS) agents. The agents arrested senior writer Austin Uganwa and senior project writer B. Osoba. The heavily […]

(CPJ/IFEX) – On 20 April 1998, the CPJ issued the following statement in reaction to the release of writer Wang Dan from prison: **Updates IFEX alerts of 21 October 1997, 15 January 1997 and others** CPJ welcomes the 19 April 1998 release of Chinese dissident activist and writer Wang Dan from prison, and calls for […]

(CPJ/IFEX) – According to CPJ, there appears to be an ongoing campaign of intimidation and harassment directed by the Greater Jakarta Military Command against a number of journalists and news outlets in Indonesia. Under the guise of a continuing investigation into a bombing incident that occurred on 18 January 1998, reporters, editors and publishers have […]

(CPJ/IFEX) – According to CPJ, journalist Nelson Catipay, 35, a correspondent for radio station DXMY in Cotabato City, was shot while traveling in a jeepney (passenger minivan) to a news conference in the town of Sultan Kudarat. Catipay was shot by two unidentified men who were fellow passengers, according to police reports. The killers reportedly […]

(CPJ/IFEX) – According to CPJ, at around midnight on 12-13 April 1998, Jordanian authorities detained Yousef Gheishan, a columnist for the daily “Al-Arab al-Youm” and contributor to the weekly “Abed Rabbo”. Gheishan is being held at General Intelligence headquarters in Amman, the capital. Authorities have provided no reason for his detention. **This alert contains a […]

(CPJ/IFEX) – Edward Smith, a reporter with the British Broadcasting Service (BBC), was killed in an ambush in the village of Banbanduhun during the afternoon of 13 April 1998. Smith, who covered the northeastern region (Makeni and Kono districts) of Sierra Leone for the BBC since the Armed Forces Ruling Council (AFRC) took power in […]

(CPJ/IFEX) – On 14 April 1998, Ibrahim B. Kargbo, managing editor of the weekly independent newspaper “Citizen”, and Hilton Fyle, managing director of WBIG (FM 103) and a former BBC Network Africa Service presenter, were charged with treason in the Magistrate’s Court in Freetown. The journalists appeared before Justice Mrs. Claudia Taylor at 10:30 a.m. […]