Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ)

(CPJ/IFEX) – According to CPJ, Línea Sur 3 correspondent Bernardo Arevalo Padron, who was sentenced to six years in prison in October 1997, has been suffering from health problems since his confinement to a filthy cell in Ariza prison in Cienfuegos province. Arevalo has bronchitis and reportedly was treated twice for high blood pressure in […]

(CPJ/IFEX)- On 27 December 1997, Al-Jerome Chede, producer and announcer for the privately owned Radio Monrovia (FM 98.7) call-in shows “Issues in the Press” and “Press Fire”, fled Liberia with his wife Melissa Chede after an attempted kidnapping on 26 November 1997. The attempted kidnapping was the latest in a string of press freedom violations […]

(CPJ/IFEX) – Egyptian authorities have enforced the prison sentences handed down last month against Magdy Hussein, editor-in-chief of “Al-Sha’b” and Muhammad Hilel, a reporter for the paper. On 24 February 1998, both men were convicted on appeal of allegedly libeling Alaa al-Alfi, son of former Interior Minister Hassan al-Alfi. Each was given a one year […]

(CPJ/IFEX) – CPJ will release its latest report on press freedom abuses around the world at a news conference beginning at 10 a.m. on 26 March 1998, at the National Press Club, 14th and F Streets N.W., in Washington, D.C. The 444-page “Attacks on the Press in 1997” is CPJ’s largest and most inclusive survey […]

(CPJ/IFEX) – CPJ urges a complete and impartial investigation into the March 2 1998 murder of radio journalist Didier Aristizabal Galeano in Cali. According to local journalists, on the night of 2 March 1998, Aristizabal was followed by two men riding a Yamaha motorcycle after leaving the Santiago de Cali University where he taught. When […]

(CPJ/IFEX) – Tunde Oladepo, senior editor of the “Guardian” newspaper was killed by unidentified armed men on 27 February 1998, and not 27 February 1997, as had been previously reported. **This corrects information contained in IFEX alert dated 2 March 1998**

(CPJ/IFEX) – On 27 February 1998, representatives of CPJ and the Press Council of Turkey urged Prime Minister Mesut Yilmaz to accelerate pending reforms of Turkish press laws and to request an immediate review of 12 cases of imprisoned reporters and editors, who the two groups say have been convicted on the basis of their […]

(CPJ/IFEX) – On 27 February 1997, unidentified armed men broke into the Ogun State home of Tunde Oladepo, senior editor of the “Guardian” newspaper, and shot him in front of his wife and children. The gunmen remained in Oladepo’s home for two hours, finally leaving the premises with a television set and some clothing. CPJ […]