Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ)

(CPJ/IFEX) – On March 19 1998, at least two television cameramen working for Western agencies were beaten by plainclothes policemen while attempting to film mass demonstrations in Prishtina. Taras Protsyuk, a Ukrainian camera operator working for Reuters TV, was attacked from behind as he shot footage of a weeping Albanian woman who said she had […]

(CPJ/IFEX) – The following is the full text of a letter by CPJ to Ernesto Samper, President of Colombia, on the first anniversary of the murder of journalist Gerardo Borrero: **Updates IFEX alerts of 3 and 6 March and 24 February 1998, 3, 14, and 21 November 1997, and others** On the first anniversary of […]

(CPJ/IFEX) – On the occasion of King Hussein’s meeting with President Clinton on 19 March 1998, CPJ expresses its deep concern about recent cases of government interference with independent journalism in Jordan, which violate international standards for a free press. CPJ is disturbed by the authorities’ arrest and criminal prosecution of several journalists in response […]

(CPJ/IFEX) – On the occasion of King Hussein’s meeting with President Clinton on 19 March 1998, CPJ expresses its deep concern about recent cases of government interference with independent journalism in Jordan, which violate international standards for a free press. CPJ is disturbed by the authorities’ arrest and criminal prosecution of several journalists in response […]

(CPJ/IFEX) – Russian authorities have arrested a second suspect in the October 1994 murder of investigative reporter Dmitry Kholodov and announced that they are close to solving the March 1995 killing of Vladislav Listyev, a prominent Russian Public Television (ORT) executive. **Updates IFEX alerts of 20 February 1998, 3 May 1995 and 18 October 1994 […]

(CPJ/IFEX) – In late November 1997, the Advisory Committee, the local administrative body for the National Security Act (NSA), concluded that the grounds for detaining Ajit Bhuyan, former editor of the Assamese-language daily newspaper “Asomiya Protidin” and its sister paper, the Assamese-language weekly “Sadin”, were not acceptable and ordered his release. Following this decision, the […]

(CPJ/IFEX) – According to reports from India received by CPJ, 50 armed men attacked the Madurai office of the Tamil-language daily newspaper “Dinamalar” in the early morning of 1 March 1998. Bearing clubs and knives, the armed men assaulted the office watchman, hurled four molotov cocktails, and destroyed property which included press equipment, windows, electrical […]

(CPJ/IFEX) – According to CPJ, on 13 March 1998, Israeli Defense Forces’ (IDF) soldiers opened fire with rubber-coated metal bullets on a group of reporters covering clashes in Hebron between Palestinian protesters and Israeli troops. The names of the wounded reporters include: Nael Shiyoukhi and Mazen Dana of Reuters; Majdi al-Tamimi and Amer al-Jabari of […]