Articles by Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ)
Military occupies private radio station
On 6 July 1996, soldiers evacuated and occupied the offices of ANFANI FM 100 MHZ, a privately-owned radio station in Niamey. As of 11 July, the station had not broadcast since the beginning of the occupation. According to Gremah Boucar, director of the private media group, AGENCE ANFANI, which owns ANFANI FM 100 MHZ and […]
Police beat photographers and reporters covering demonstration
On the afternoon of 15 July 1996, police officers beat five photographers and reporters who were covering a demonstration against police brutality held in front of the office of the Governor of Istanbul. According to eyewitness accounts, policemen intentionally targeted journalists, beating them and breaking their cameras. Several reporters fled the police and took shelter […]
Journalists and editors call newspaper strike
**Updates IFEX alerts dated 11 and 4 July 1996** Algerian editors and journalists have called a newspaper strike for Monday 15 July 1996 to demand the release of Chawki Amari, a cartoonist with the independent French-language daily “La Tribune”, and to call for the reopening of “La Tribune”. Recommended Action Continue sending appeals to Algerian […]
“Telegraf” editor and reporter convicted for libel
On 11 July 1996, journalists Radu Mazare and Constantin Cumpana were sentenced to seven months in prison, and a 25 million lei fine for libel. Mazare, the editor, and Cumpana, a reporter at the daily newspaper “Telegraf” in Constanta, were charged with libel in connection with a 1992 article in the newspaper about corruption in […]
Trial of Russian journalist Valery Yerofeyev resumes on fabricated charges
Source: Globus Independent Press Syndicate Media Defence Center, Moscow **Updates IFEX alert dated 19 June 1996** The trial of journalist Valery Yerofeyev resumed in closed session in the Russian provincial city of Samara on 8 July 1996. (The session was adjourned from 21 June to 7 July, apparently in response to local and international protests.) […]
Attacks against journalists in Simferopol and Sevastopol; reported threats to press freedom in the Crimea; concern at unsolved cases
**Includes new cases. For background to previously- reported case, see IFEX alerts as noted in text** In a 10 July 1996 letter to Ukrainian authorities, the full-text of which is included below, the CPJ expresses concern at attacks against journalists in Simferopol and Sevastopol, at reports of serious incidents which threaten press freedom in the […]
Indian-backed militia in Kashmir abducts and detains 19 journalists for over seven hours
On 8 July 1996, an Indian-backed counter-insurgency militia kidnapped and detained 19 journalists in Kashmir. The journalists, who were released unharmed that same evening, were held as hostages by the militia to secure a meeting with the editors of Kashmir’s leading newspapers. The 19 journalists were traveling together from Srinagar, the summer capital of Kashmir, […]
Editor Chan Rotana released after pardon
**Updates IFEX alerts dated 3 July 1996 and 9 March 1995** Chan Rotana, editor of “Samleng Yuvachun Khmer” (“Voice of Khmer Youth”), was released from a Phnom Penh prison on 5 July 1996. His release came after Cambodia’s Second Prime Minister, Hun Sen, agreed on 3 July to King Norodom Sihanouk’s request for a pardon. […]