Articles by Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ)
Journalist Leung Tin-wai violently attacked
On 15 May 1996, veteran Hong Kong journalist Leung Tin-wai was violently attacked by assailants who cut off his left forearm. According to news reports, two unidentified men entered Leung’s office shortly after a press conference announcing the 17 May launch of the tabloid “Surprise Weekly”. The men asked to see Leung, who led them […]
Four journalists with Sudanese Television arrested
In late April 1996, Sudanese security forces arrested four journalists with the state-owned Sudanese Television. News director Ismael Muhammad al-Hussein, news editors Hussein Saleh and Abbas Suleiman, and cameraman Osama Ghandi were arrested at the station’s offices and taken into custody. There has been no news of the journalists since their arrest, and colleagues fear […]
Journalist Viktor Mikhailov killed
According to the Russian news agency, ITAR-TASS, Viktor Mikhailov, a crime reporter for the Siberian daily “Zabaikalsky Rabochy”, was killed by unknown assailants in broad daylight in downtown Chita on 12 May 1996. His mutilated body was identified the following day. Mikhailov had reportedly been covering crime reports and the work of law enforcement agencies […]
Journalist Nina Yefimova killed
On 9 May 1996, Nina Yefimova, a 25-year-old Russian correspondent who resided in Chechnya, was found dead from a pistol shot to the back of the head. According to ITAR-TASS, both Yefimova and her mother were abducted from their apartment on the outskirts of Grozny on the night of 8 May. Yefimova’s body was found […]
Opposition editor Magdi Hussein arrested for refusing to pay fine
**Updates IFEX alerts dated 31, 30 January 1996 and 25 October 1995** On 7 May 1996, a Cairo court ordered Magdi Hussein, editor-in- chief of “Al-Shaab”, a bi-weekly organ of the pro-Islamist Labor Party, to pay a fine for a libel conviction, or else face imprisonment. The following day, police arrested Hussein because of his […]
Two “Feral Tribune” journalists face criminal charges; “Panorama” newspaper closed down; “Novi List” ordered to pay fine
According to journalists at the independent weekly “Feral Tribune”, on 3 May 1996, editor-in-chief Viktor Ivancic was taken to police offices and informed that a criminal case had been opened against him and reporter Marinko Culic. The charges cite the 29 April 1996 edition of the “Feral Tribune” issue that contained Culic’s article entitled “Bones […]
Reporters Alieu Badara Sowe and Bruce Asemota arrested and held incommunicado; police order them to reveal sources
On 6 May 1996, Alieu Badara Sowe, a reporter for the independent newspaper “The Point”, and Bruce Asemota, reporter for the independent “Daily Observer”, were arrested by plainclothes police officers from the criminal investigations unit. The officers later ordered the journalists to disclose their sources for articles that they had written about the National Police, […]
Update on murder of Nadezdha Chaikova
**Updates IFEX alerts dated 12 and 10 April 1996** According to colleagues of murdered “Obshchaya gazeta” correspondent Nadezhda Chaikova, the office of the Prosecutor General of Russia has not opened an investigation into her death and the local Chechen village prosecutor who originally took up the case is unlikely to go further because of limited […]