Articles by Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ)
“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 […]
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 […]