Articles by Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ)
Authorities shut down news program “Slikom na Sliku”
On 1 July 1996, Croatian authorities cancelled the television news program “Slikom na Sliku” (“Frame by Frame”), which airs on state-owned HTV. Journalists at the program stated that officials from HTV, which is the only nation-wide television channel in Croatia, informed the program’s editor that HTV would no longer air “Slikom na Sliku.” No reason […]
Decree forbids making insulting or slanderous remarks against President of Tartarstan
On 24 June 1996, a presidential decree was issued which forbids making insulting or slanderous public remarks about the President of Tartarstan. The decree calls for a four million ruble (US$ 800) fine on anyone found guilty of the charge. Repeat offenders whose insults are printed in the media face higher fines of seven million […]
Wife of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Minsk correspondent assaulted; husband warned
**For background, see IFEX alerts dated 14 June, 30 April 1996 and others** The wife of a Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) correspondent in Minsk, Galina Drakokhrust, was beaten by three assailants at 2:00 hours on 22 June 1996, the correspondent told CPJ. Yury Drakokhurst was away on a business trip in Poland when the […]
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) […]