Articles by Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ)
CNN reporter and film crew briefly detained; Taliban place restrictions on foreign media
(CPJ/IFEX) – On 29 September 1997, European Commissioner for Humanitarian Affairs Emma Bonino, eighteen other European Union (EU) workers and journalists, including Christiane Amanpour of the Cable News Network (CNN), and a CNN film crew were detained for three-and-a-half hours by Taliban police in Kabul. According to an Associated Press (AP) report citing sources in […]
Authorities refuse to grant press cards to journalists from “Challenge” and “Al-Sabar” magazines; Palestinian journalist harassed and assaulted by Israeli soldier
(CPJ/IFEX) – On 16 February 1997, the Governmental Press Office (GPO) informed the English-language bi-monthly magazine “Challenge” and its sister publication, the bi-weekly Arabic-language magazine “Al-Sabar”, that their request for seven press cards for staff reporters, filed in December 1996, was denied. Among the reasons cited by the GPO for its decision was the fact […]
Report on press freedom in Hong Kong is released by CPJ
(CPJ/IFEX) – Although on the surface little seems to have changed, the “climate of free expression in Hong Kong has shifted in subtle but distinct ways,” says the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) in a report released on 24 September 1997 on press freedom in the former British colony. “In the vibrant Hong Kong press, […]
Police raid and occupy offices of newspaper
(CPJ/IFEX) – On 27 August 1997, police and private security forces raided the Lahore office of “Pakistan”, an independent Urdu-language daily. According to reports from Pakistan, the newspaper office was raided by Punjab police who continue to occupy the building. The police action is apparently related to a civil financial dispute between Akbar Ali Bhatti, […]
Free press vital to economic development in Asia and emerging markets elsewhere in the world, say participants in CPJ forum
(CPJ/IFEX) – The continued vitality of Hong Kong as an international financial centre will depend on an unhindered free press, United States of America Deputy Treasury Secretary Lawrence H. Summers told a public forum on 23 September 1997, held in conjunction with the World Bank/International Monetary Fund annual meetings in Hong Kong. “Hong Kong has […]
Journalists from six countries to receive CPJ’s International Press Freedom Awards; committee to honour Ted Koppel, Fred Friendly for dedication to press freedom
(CPJ/IFEX) – Six journalists — from Croatia, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Russia, Taiwan and the United States — who have risked their freedom and their lives to report the news will receive the 1997 International Press Freedom Awards from the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), it was announced on 19 September 1997. CPJ will also honour […]
Trial of journalist Yryspek Omurzakov resumes
(CPJ/IFEX) – On 18 September 1997, the trial of Yryspek Omurzakov, a journalist with the opposition weekly “Res Publika”, resumed in the Lenin District Court of Bishkek. Omurzakov was arrested in March 1997 on criminal charges for allegedly libelling a factory director, an accusation characterized by his lawyers as politically motivated. **Updates IFEX alerts dated […]
Court decides to ban newspaper; copies of another newspaperseized
(CPJ/IFEX) – The Egyptian court of first instance, on 10 September 1997, decided to ban the publication of three issues of the bi-weekly newspaper “Al-Sha’b” as a result of its coverage of a pending libel suit initiated by Interior Minister Hassanal-Alfi against “Al-Sha’b” editor-in-chief Magdi Hussein and four journalists from the newspaper. The move followed […]