Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ)

(CPJ/IFEX) – The Committee to Protect Journalists reports the release of American journalist Richard Choi by the South Korean government on his own recognizance. A Seoul court released Choi, who had been in jail since 19 December 1997, early Thursday morning, Korea time. He must still stand trial on charges arising from a complaint of […]

(CPJ/IFEX) – American journalist Richard Choi, a veteran reporter and the vice-president of Radio Korea, a Korean-language radio station in Los Angeles, was arrested at the Koreana Hotel in Seoul on 19 December 19997 and charged with criminal slander and defamation on the basis of a story he broadcast from Seoul to Los Angeles. The […]

(CPJ/IFEX) – American journalist Richard Choi, a veteran reporter and the vice-president of Radio Korea, a Korean-language radio station in Los Angeles, was arrested at the Koreana Hotel in Seoul on 19 December 19997 and charged with criminal slander and defamation on the basis of a story he broadcast from Seoul to Los Angeles. The […]

(CPJ/IFEX) – On the morning of 13 December 1997, Nabil al-Amoudi, a reporter for the biweekly newspaper “Al-Ayyam” in Abyan governorate, was detained by agents from Yemen’s Political Security (PS) in the town of Zinjibar, after being summoned to PS headquarters the previous evening. To the best of CPJ’s knowledge, he continues to be held […]

(CPJ/IFEX) – Alex Redd, a journalist for Radio DC101, was arrested on 21 December 1997 in Gbarnga by one of President Charles Taylor’s Security Units while returning home from the funeral of slain opposition leader Sam Dorkie. His whereabouts are unknown. Forkpa Nyenkan, managing editor of “The News” newspaper, was arrested in Monrovia on 22 […]

(CPJ/IFEX) – On 22 December 1997, criminal proceedings against “Feral Tribune” editor Viktor Ivancic and reporter Marinko Culic will resume. Ivancic and Culic are scheduled to appear at a hearing before the same Zagreb Municipal Court judge that acquitted them on charges of “rudely and falsely slandering the president” on September 26, 1996. The Zagreb […]

(CPJ/IFEX) – On 16 December 1997, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) urged President Bill Clinton to stress the United States’ concerns about the lack of press freedom in Turkey in his meeting with Prime Minister Mezut Yilmaz on 18 December. “We want Turkey to live up to the long-term promises it made to CPJ […]

(CPJ/IFEX) – Mariza Romao, who works for Globo Television Network affiliate TV Liberal, fled Maraba, a town in the northern state of Para, on 1 December 1997 after receiving a series of death threats. Romao reported on the April 1996 massacre in Eldorado de Carajas, a town close to Maraba, in which nineteen landless workers […]