Articles by Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ)
Journalist’s home raided
(CPJ/IFEX) – On 12 February 1998, the home of Iqbal Athas, one of Sri Lanka’s leading military reporters who is widely known for his column “Situation Report” in the Colombo “Sunday Times”, was raided. At approximately 21:00, as Athas was watching television with his wife and seven-year-old daughter on the second floor of his Colombo […]
Blancornelas investigation continues
(CPJ/IFEX) – Following is the full text of a letter sent by CPJ, IAPA, PEN American Center, and RSF to Jorge Madrazo, the Attorney General of Mexico: “On November 27 1998, Jesus Blancornelas, co-editor of the weekly “Zeta”, was attacked at 9:30 in Tijuana at the corner of Chula Vista and San Francisco streets. Two […]
Arrieta faces possible arrest and detention
(CPJ/IFEX) – CPJ reports the possible arrest and detention of investigative journalist Jose Arrieta Matos should he return to Peru. CPJ invited Arrieta to its offices in New York on 8 January 1998, after being informed that he faced imminent arrest in Peru. **Updates IFEX alerts of 17 December 1997 and 7 January 1998 – […]
Editor Savalan Mamedov released
(CPJ/IFEX) – Savalan Mamedov, chief editor of the weekly “Istintag” newspaper in Baku, was freed from prison on 23 January 1998. Mamedov, who was arrested on 22 December 1997 (see IFEX alert), still faces trial on criminal libel charges against a former district prosecutor. According to the Human Rights Center of Azerbaijan, Mamedov is charged […]
Daily newspaper shut down
(CPJ/IFEX) – On 28 January 1998 the government of the Ukraine shut down the opposition daily newspaper “Pravda Ukrainy”, two months before national parliamentary elections. According to the newspaper’s editor, Oleksander Horobets, the shutdown occurred when the state publishing house, Presa Ukrainy, announced it would no longer publish the newspaper on the order of the […]
Cuban journalists threatened with imprisonment
(CPJ/IFEX) – Jorge Luis Arce Cabrera told CPJ that on 30 January 1998 he and his colleague Jesus Eofcoue Castellanos were threatened with imprisonment by a state security official at Acre’s home in Cienfuegos. Lieutenant Orebis Montes de Oca reportedly told Arce, Cienfuegos-correspondent for the Buro de Prensa Independiente de Cuba (BPIC), and Eofcoue, a […]
CPJ expresses concern about denial of visas to jounalists and other cases
Below is the complete text of a letter which CPJ sent to President Fidel Castro regarding the cases of journalists denied visas to cover the Pope’s visit, and other pending cases. **New cases and updates. For background, see IFEX alerts of 16 January 1998, 17 October, 18 September, and 21 August 1997 (Arevalo Padron case); […]
Bosnian editor convicted of libel
(CPJ/IFEX) The editor of the independent “Dani” magazine in Sarajevo, Senad Pecanin, was convicted on 19 January 1998 by a municipal court of criminal libel against the editor of the daily “Dnevni Avaz”. Pecanin received a conditional sentence of two months in prison, which he would be required to serve if he is caught violating […]