Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ)

The United States (U.S.) Embassy in Moscow has asked the Russian Foreign Ministry to help find missing U.S. journalist Andrew Shumek. The 26-year-old photographer was last seen on 28 July, when he left Grozny and headed toward the surrounding mountainous area. According reports from other journalists, Shumek arrived in Grozny from St. Petersburg on 24 […]

During the evening of 20 August 1995, Ameur Ouageni, head of the international news department at the French-language independent daily “Le Matin”, was shot and critically wounded in front of his home in Algiers. He died of his wounds in a hospital later that night. No group has claimed responsibility for the assassination. But CPJ […]

**For background on “Ozgur Ulke” and “Ozgur Gundem”, see IFEX alerts dated 9 April, 7, 3 February 1995 and others** The pro-Kurdish daily “Yeni Politika” was subjected to a de facto ban on 16 August 1995. The Istanbul Criminal Court found that “Yeni Politika” is a successor to “Ozgur Gundem” and “Ozgur Ulke”, two other […]

**For background to recent incidents, see IFEX alert dated 21 July 1995** The CPJ recently called upon the organizational body of the Kashmir separation movement, the All-Party Hurriyat (Freedom) Conference (APHC), to condemn attacks on the press by militant groups, and to expel member parties whose militant allies continue to threaten journalists and news organizations. […]

The CPJ confirms the previously unreported death of another Algerian journalist. Ahmed Takouchet, a journalist with Radio Cirta of Constantine who was popularly known as “Hakim,” was kidnapped from his home by four men on 17 June 1995. His body was found the next day with his throat slit.

The body of Naima Hamouda, a cultural reporter with the weekly “Revolution africaine” and formerly with “Le Matin” and “L’Hebdo libere”, was discovered on 2 August 1995, near an apartment building where she had been staying in the Algiers suburb of Saoula. She had been shot to death and severely disfigured. Her remains were not […]

CPJ on 10 August 1995 expressed alarm at recent death threats from members of organized crime against Candido Figueredo, the correspondent for the Asuncion daily “ABC Color” in Pedro Juan Caballero, in the department of Amambay. Figueredo has been receiving death threats for the last two weeks, all warning him to cease reporting on a […]

**Updates IFEX alert dated 20 July 1995** According to journalists in the Brazilian state of Goias, a policeman who allegedly shot Marcos Borges Ribeiro, owner of the monthly journal “Independente” in Rio Verde, state of Goias, confessed to the killing and surrendered to police a few days after the crime. He is reportedly free on […]