Articles by Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ)
Trial of “Feral Tribune” editor Viktor Ivancic and reporter Marinko Culic to resume on 22 December 1997.
(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 calls on President Bill Clinton to stress U.S. concerns about lack of press freedom in Turkey
(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 […]
Journalist Mariza Romao receives death threats
(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 […]
Alleged government-sponsored offensive against journalist Iqbal Athas
(CPJ/IFEX) – The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is deeply concerned over what appears to be a government-sponsored offensive directed against Iqbal Athas, one of Sri Lanka’s leading military reporters, widely known for his column Situation Report in the “Sunday Times” of Colombo. In late November, several state-run media outlets gave extensive coverage to the […]
Journalist J. Jesus Blancornelas shot
(CPJ/IFEX) – On 27 November 1997, at about 9:30 am, J. Jesus Blancornelas, co-director of the Tijuana weekly “Zeta”, was shot during a shootout with unknown assailants. Blancornelas’s driver and bodyguard, Luis Lauro Valero, was killed in the attack. One of the alleged attackers was also reported to have been killed and identified by police. […]
Court orders closure of newspaper “Svaboda”
(CPJ/IFEX) – Maya Klimenkova, a justice for the Supreme Commercial Court of Belarus, ordered the immediate shutdown of “Svaboda”, one of the largest and most popular independent newspapers in the country, during a 25 November 1997 court hearing over charges issued by the State Press Committee that the newspaper had violated the country’s press law. […]
Two newspapers banned; copies of another confiscated
(CPJ/IFEX) – On 11 October 1997, the Ministry of Information confiscated all issues of the 30 September – 15 October edition of the official bi-weekly “Ma’in” and banned its publication indefinitely. The action appears to have been taken in retaliation for an editorial written by chief editor Abdel Fattah Al-Hakimi titled “From the Revolution of […]
Newspaper “Svaboda” ordered to close
(CPJ/IFEX) – Pavel Zhuk, publisher of the thrice-weekly Minsk opposition newspaper “Svaboda”, told CPJ that members of the government administration informed his editorial staff on 20 November that President Lukashenko has issued an order to close down the paper. On 20 November, the paper received fresh warnings from the State Press Committee that it could […]