Articles by Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ)
Update on status of Ethiopian journalists
**Updates IFEX alerts dated 3 January 1996, 13, and 12 December 1995** The following are lists issued by CPJ of Ethiopian journalists who have been released, are currently in detention or are serving sentences, as well as those who are missing or have gone into hiding. Journalists detained and released: 1. Garoma Bekele, publisher of […]
Journalist Bruce Asemota flees The Gambia after continued harassment
**Updates IFEX alerts dated 23 and 8 May 1996** On 5 June 1996, Bruce Asemota, a reporter for the independent “Daily Observer”, fled The Gambia. He was arrested at the border town of Andali by officials of the Gambian National Intelligence Agency (NIA) and was beaten; he now sustains an injury to his left leg. […]
Journalist Nosa Igiebor released
**Updates IFEX alerts dated 19 March, 12, 3 January 1996; 29 and 27 December 1995** On 24 June 1996, “Tell” magazine editor-in-chief Nosa Igiebor was released from incommunicado detention. News of his release, as well as that of six other Nigerian political detainees, coincided with the second day of talks in London between Nigeria and […]
Cuban authorities interrogate and deport CPJ staffer
On 20 June 1996, Cuban Interior Ministry officials detained, interrogated, and deported from Cuba a visiting staff expert from the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), accusing her of “fomenting rebellion” through its support for Cuba’s independent journalists. Suzanne Bilello, the CPJ’s Program Coordinator for the Americas, was arrested in her hotel room in Havana at […]
“The Point” journalist Ansumano Badjie (m) in hiding
Ansumano Badjie, senior reporter for the independent newspaper, “The Point”, has gone into hiding. Badjie was sent to cover the Armed Forces Provisional Ruling Council’s (AFPRC) two-week tour of its rural projects, from 3 to 15 June. When the entourage arrived in the rural city of Soma on 13 June, the National Intelligence Agency (NIA) […]
Editor and Member of Parliament Njehu Gatabaki (m) to appear in court on sedition charges
On 14 May 1996, Njehu Gatabaki, chief editor of the Kenyan independent monthly magazine “Finance,” and a Member of Parliament, was arrested by at least 20 police officers at the roadside near his house in the Lavington district of Nairobi. He was released on bail on 22 May, without charge. Police had issued a warrant […]
Trial of journalist Valery Yerofeyev begins
Source: Globus Independent Press Syndicate Media Defence Centre, Moscow The case of journalist Valery Yerofeyev, who has already been in detention for nine months, went to trial on 18 June 1996 in the city of Samara. Yerofeyev is charged under Article 226 of the Penal Code with “pandering” in regard to his alleged procurement of […]
Trial of “Feral Tribune” journalists postponed until September
**Updates IFEX alerts dated 12 June and 8 May 1996** The trial of “Feral Tribune” editor-in-chief Viktor Ivancic and reporter Marinko Culic has been unexpectedly adjourned until 25 September 1996. After reading the indictment and the opening defence statements, the judge adjourned the trial, saying that he recognised the need to call new witnesses. The […]