Articles by Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ)
Correspondent Nyenati Allison flees Liberia after threats from fighting factions
**Updates IFEX alert dated 23 April 1996** Liberian journalist Nyenati Allison, correspondent for the Associated Press (AP) news agency and the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), has fled with his two children from Liberia after being threatened by soldiers for the third time. On 3 May 1996, a commander of the National Patriotic Forces of Liberia […]
Journalist and human rights activist Parag Kumar Das murdered
On 17 May 1996, journalist and human rights activist Parag Kumar Das was shot by unidentified gunmen in Guwahati, in the northeastern state of Assam. Das, the editor-in-chief of the daily “Asomiya Pratidin”, was picking his son up from school when three men drove up in an automobile and opened fire. Das was shot at […]
Case against “El Watan” director Omar Belhouchet dropped; allowed to travel to U.S.
**Updates IFEX alert dated 18 April 1996** After preventing him from leaving the country last month, the Algerian government has permitted Omar Belhoucet, director of the independent French-language daily “El Watan”, to travel to the United States by dropping 14 April charges against him and returning his seized passport. Belhouchet was invited to participate in […]
“Azg” newspaper resumes publication
**Updates IFEX alert dated 1 May 1996** The independent daily “Azg” resumed publication on 14 May 1996 and Hagop Avedikian resumed his position as editor-in-chief after a court quashed an attempt by the Ministry of Justice to change the ownership of the newspaper. Appeals To
Bomb attack against journalist Jose Ruben Zamora
On 15 May 1996, Jose Ruben Zamora, the former editor of “Siglo Veintiuno”, was dining in a Guatemala City restaurant when a grenade exploded outside, damaging his car. Two grenades had been tossed from a passing vehicle, one of which failed to explode. Zamora told CPJ that he believed the attack was intended as a […]
President Bakili Muluzi warns media about “inaccurate reporting”
Source: Reuters On 14 May 1996, Malawi President Bakili Muluzi warned journalists that he would not tolerate what he called “inaccurate reporting” which harmed the country’s image. Muluzi was apparently angered by a newspaper report which alleged that a local company had given him a free vehicle in order to give that company favourable treatment. […]
Government official charges that the British Broadcasting Corporation is favouring the opposition in its campaign coverage
On 4 May 1996, Adrian Nastase, President of the Chamber of Deputies, charged that the British Broadcasting Corporation’s (BBC) Romanian-language service was violating Romania’s electoral law by “obviously favouring the opposition in its campaign coverage.” Nastase then called upon the National Audiovisual Council (CNA) to “reconsider” the frequency allocation of those FM stations that broadcast […]
Thun Bun Ly, editor of the Cambodian newspaper “Odom K’tek Khmer”, fatally shot
Thun Bun Ly, editor of the Cambodian newspaper “Odom K’tek Khmer” (Khmer Ideal), was fatally shot by an unidentified gunman in Phnom Phen on the morning of Saturday 18 May 1996. The shooting of Ly, a member of opposition leader Sam Rainsy’s Khmer Nation Party (KNP), occurred the same day that the KNP was to […]