Articles by Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ)
Editor released without charge; government authorities warn journalists
On 28 August 1996, “Expo Times” publisher and editor-in-chief Ibrahim Seaga Shaw was released without charge. **New case, plus update to IFEX alert dated 28 August 1996** The following day, Minister of Information George Banda-Thomas and Attorney General Solomon Berewa called all editors to a meeting at Banda-Thomas’s office where they were warned against publishing […]
Five journalists shot at while covering demonstration
During the 29 August 1996 attack on several journalists who were covering a demonstration by coca cultivators in the Caqueta department of Colombia, soldiers fired on five Colombian journalists, all of whom were clearly identified as journalists by brightly coloured flak jackets marked with the names of their news organisations. The journalists fired upon are: […]
Subpoenas served to several journalists and media outlets
On 22 August 1996, police served subpoenas to Moegsien Williams, editor of “The Cape Times”, Shaun Johnson, editor of “The Argus”, Ebbe Dommisse, editor of “Die Burger”, numerous journalists at the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) and the Associated Press (AP), and members of the South African Press Association (SAPA). All were ordered to appear […]
Journalist Appolos Hakizimana released
Appolos Hakizimana, a journalist with the privately-owned newspaper “Intego”, was released from the Muhima Brigade in Kigali during the week of 19 August 1996. **Updates IFEX alerts dated 9 and 1 August 1996** Background Information Hakizimana was picked up by police on 30 July and accused of being an “interahamwe” (a term used to designate […]
“Expo Times” editors Ibrahim Seaga Shaw and Gibril Kroma arrested; newspaper’s offices searched
On 28 August 1996, “Expo Times” publisher and editor-in-chief Ibrahim Seaga Shaw and news editor Gibril Kroma were arrested and transported to Central Investigation Department (CID) headquarters at Slater Terrace. The arrest followed a two-hour search by ten CID agents who had entered the editorial offices of “Expo Times” with a search warrant granting permission […]
“The News” editors Bayo Onanuga and Babafemi Ojudu arrested; Ojudu later released
Two editors of the opposition weekly magazine “The News,” Bayo Onanuga and Babafemi Ojudu, have been arrested by Nigerian security authorities. Citing the Constitutional Rights Project, a Lagos-based human rights group, Reuters said Onanuga and Ojudu had been detained since 11 August 1996 over an article about Oil Minister Dan Etete entitled “The Man Abacha […]
Russian helicopters fire on CNN and WTN crews
CPJ has confirmed reports that on 8 August 1996, four members of a Cable News Network (CNN) television crew, travelling in an armoured Land Rover vehicle that was clearly marked with the letters “T.V.” on the roof and sides, were stopped at a Russian military checkpoint on the outskirts of Grozny, the capital of the […]
Patria journalist Ramon Alberto Cruz Lima detained and harassed; concern at reports of arrest of Patria member Magali Pino and Bernardo Fuentes Camblor
CPJ is concerned over the recent detention, harassment and threats of incarceration made by Cuban State Political Police against Ramon Alberto Cruz Lima, a journalist for the independent Cuban news agency Patria in the city of Ciego de Avila. Cruz was arrested on 1 August 1996, when he visited the home of Hector Valdivia in […]