Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ)

**See also IFEX CH press release dated 5 June 1995** The CPJ is deeply concerned about the impact on Colombia’s press freedom by an anti-corruption law passed by the Senate on 30 May 1995. The Anti-corruption statute is worrisome because one of its articles, No. 34, would prevent journalists from reporting on investigations and legal […]

Early on the morning of 13 April 1995, 20 members of Force 17, the personal guard unit of Yasser Arafat, raided the Gaza home of Taher Shriteh, publisher of the independent weekly “Filastin” and a stringer for Reuters and CBS News. They did not find Shriteh and proceeded to beat his brothers Fakher, Amer, and […]

On 13 April 1995, officers with General Intelligence raided the Gaza offices of “Al-Watan”, a pro-Hamas weekly newspaper, and detained three journalists with the paper. The officers severely beat deputy editor Ghazi Hamad in the course of the arrest, local sources told the CPJ. Hamad, editor-in-chief Sayed Abu Musameh, and reporter Nafez al-Ji’b were held […]

**Updates IFEX CH alerts dated 17 and 14 March 1995** After exhausting all efforts to find the missing journalists Maxime Chabaline and Felix Tritov through their political channels, the staff of St. Petersburg newspaper “Nevskoe Vremya” organized a third search group, which left for Chechnya on 9 April. The group planned to exhume several graves […]

**Updates IFEX CH alert dated 11 April 1995** On 11 April 1995 CPJ sent a protest letter to Colombian President Ernesto Samper expressing concern over recent threats and attacks against Colombian journalists in the cities of Cali and Valledupar, Colombia. According to Colombian reporters, national correspondents reporting on recent anti-drug sweeps in Cali have been […]

Alaa al-Masharawy, a reporter for the Jerusalem-based “Al-Quds” daily newspaper, was detained by Palestinian police on 9 April at the Erez checkpoint near the border with Israel. Also on 9 April, police arrested Muhammad Jahjouh, a freelance cameraman, at his home in the Shatti refugee camp. On 10 April, members of Military Intelligence detained cameraman […]

**Updates IFEX CH alert dated 20 March 1995** Algerian State Television (ENTV) reporter Rachida Hammadi, who was seriously wounded in a 20 March 1995 attack that killed her sister, died of her wounds overnight on 30 March in a hospital in Paris, to which she had been transferred on 26 March. The Armed Islamic Group […]

Sources: Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), New York; Reporters sans frontieres (RSF), Paris **Updates IFEX CH alerts dated 3 March 1995** CPJ and RSF confirm reports that journalists Namik Berberovic and Shanaat Nahrawand, both held hostage by Bosnian Serb forces since January and February respectively, were freed on 20 March 1995 at 5pm as part […]