Articles by Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ)
Human rights activist Eyad Sarraj re-arrested
**For background to previous arrest, see IFEX alert dated 24 May 1996** On 9 June 1996, Palestinian plainclothes policemen arrested Dr. Eyad Sarraj, a respected psychiatrist and head of the Palestine Independent Commission for Citizens’ Rights (PICCR) at his home in Gaza. Attorney General Khaled al-Qidra announced that Sarraj had been detained for interrogation for […]
CPJ sends letter of protest to Mexican telecommunications company regarding its role in the Cuban government’s campaign of harassment against independent Cuban journalists
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has recently written the following letter to Javier Garza Calderon, the Chief Executive of Grupo Domos, a privately owned Mexican telecommunications company based in Monterrey, Mexico. In 1994 it purchased 49 per cent of ETECSA, the Cuban state telephone company, with which it had entered into a joint venture. […]
Journalist Roxana Valdivia arrives in the United States after being forced to emigrate
**Updates IFEX alerts dated 21 and 12 March 1996** On 4 June 1996, Roxana Valdivia, a journalist for the Bureau of Independent Press in Cuba (BPIC), arrived in Miami, Florida with her family after being forced to emigrate. Recommended Action Send appeals to authorities: considering the expulsion of Roxana Valdivia from Cuba to be a […]
Journalist Alieu Badara Sowe flees The Gambia after being threatened and attacked
**Updates IFEX alerts dated 23 and 8 May 1996** On 2 June 1996, Alieu Badara Sowe, a reporter for the independent weekly “The Point”, fled The Gambia for Senegal after being physically assaulted and receiving death threats. On 25 May, Sowe was walking home when three men attacked him. One of his attackers said, “As […]
Further harassment of leftist newspapers “Aydinlik” and “Evrensel”
**For background to previous harassment of “Evrensel”, see IFEX alerts dated 23 and 10 April 1996** On 31 May 1996, police confiscated copies of the 1 June issue of the leftist weekly “Aydinlik” as it was being printed. This was the second consecutive confiscation; previously, on 24 May, police seized the 25 May issue. The […]
Police threaten Joaquin Torres Alvarez, of the independent news agency Havana Press
On the morning of 31 May 1996, two members of the Cuban state security police went to the home of Joaquin Torres Alvarez, president of the independent news agency Havana Press, and threatened to incarcerate him if he continued to write for the agency. Torres told the Committee to Protect Journalists that police initially informed […]
Russian daily “Komsomolskaya pravda” charged with violating Kazakh Constitution
According to correspondents of the Kazakh edition of the Russian daily “Komsomolskaya pravda”, on 29 May 1996 the newspaper’s editors and a local District Court judge were unofficially summoned through an anonymous posting of a notice in the local newspaper “Karavan” for talks with the Prosecutor General of Kazakhstan, Maksut Sultanovich Narikbaev. During the meeting, […]
CPJ appeals to author of Criminal Libel Law
**For background to recent cases, see IFEX alerts dated 24, 8, 6 May, 24 April 1996 and others** The following is the full-text of an appeal sent by CPJ’s Program Coordinator for Central Europe and the former Soviet Union to the author of Croatia’s Criminal Libel Law, Vladimir Seks: “Dear Mr. Seks, “You may recall […]