Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ)

(CPJ/IFEX) – Luis Ronaldo De Leon Godoy, head of the weekend supplements section of the leading daily “Prensa Libre”, was stabbed on the morning of 14 November 1997 as he was leaving his house in central Guatemala City. Eyewitnesses report that De Leon’s assailants had been waiting in a car near his house for approximately […]

(CPJ/IFEX) – CPJ welcomed the release on 16 November 1997 of Chinese writer and leading dissident Wei Jingsheng as a positive development for journalists and writers in China. **Updates IFEX alerts of 28 and 21 October, 29 August, 1 July 1997 and others** “Obviously, this is good news and the Chinese government is to be […]

(CPJ/IFEX) – CPJ welcomed the release on 16 November 1997 of Chinese writer and leading dissident Wei Jingsheng as a positive development for journalists and writers in China. **Updates IFEX alerts of 28 and 21 October, 29 August, 1 July 1997 and others** “Obviously, this is good news and the Chinese government is to be […]

(CPJ/IFEX) – On 8 November 1997, journalist Francisco Castro Menco was shot dead by unidentified individuals in his home in Majagual, a town in the department of Sucre. Castro was president of the Fundacion Cultural, a radio station that had recently been granted a licence by the Ministry of Communications. He hosted a daily program […]

(CPJ/IFEX) – Winston Ojukutu, correspondent for the BBC, was arrested on 5 November 1997. His arrest was in connection with ad-hoc interviews he held with the public on their reaction to a public statement made by the ruling Armed Forces Revolutionary Council (AFRC) about their unwillingness to disarm until ECOMOG forces followed suit. Ojukutu’s whereabouts […]

(WAN/CPJ/RSF/IFEX) – Three press freedom organizations – the World Association of Newspapers, the Committee to Protect Journalists and Reporters sans frontieres – have written an open letter to the President of Uruguay, Julio Maria Sanguinetti, calling on him to abide by his promise to investigate the “disappearance” of journalist Julio Castro. Twenty years ago, Castro, […]

(CPJ/IFEX) – Gordana Igric, a prominent Serbian freelance journalist, has been forced into hiding by a series of death threats against her for a recent report broadcast on the U.S. television station CBS about indicted war criminals at large in the Bosnian town of Foce. Igric began receiving threatening phone calls at her Belgrade apartment […]

(CPJ/IFEX)- On 19 October 1997, Francis Akpu, a Nigerian citizen who is a reporter for the Financial Times in Freetown and owner of the newly created newspaper, “Alpha Jet” was accused of subversion and arrested by military officers. Military officials were offended with the name of the newspaper Akpu started as it refers to the […]