Articles by Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ)
Radio journalist Ahmed Takouchet killed in June
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.
Journalist Naima Hamouda killed
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 […]
Two journalists threatened in area known for drug trade
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 […]
Police officer awaits trial for murder of “Independente” owner
**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 […]
“Al-Wafd” editor-in-chief attacked
On the evening of 1 August 1995, Gamal Badawi, editor-in-chief of the opposition daily “Al-Wafd”, left a conference at the Journalists’ Syndicate in downtown Cairo. He was heading for his home in Heliopolis, when two vehicles forced his car off the road. Ten unidentified individuals then emerged from the vehicles, pulled Badawi out of his […]
Foiled assault on home of publisher; newspaper suspended
On 31 July 1995, Ibrahim al-Wazeer, publisher of the independent newspaper “Al-Balagh”, was the victim of a foiled assault on his home. Early in the morning of 31 July, a group of unidentified individuals began planting explosives at the home of al-Wazeer. The perpetrators reportedly fled from the house, in an eastern suburb of Sanaa, […]
Judgement expected in “New Breed” case
**Updates IFEX alerts dated 26 July, 19 and 12 January 1995; 13 December 1994** Judgement in the case against journalists from the newspaper “The New Breed”, which has been before the Sierra Leonian courts for over 21 months, is due 7 August 1995. If convicted, the defendants, including journalist Julius Spencer, may be imprisoned for […]
Update on journalists sentenced in “coup plot” trials
**Updates IFEX alerts dated 17 July and 26 June 1995; for background, see alerts of 11 July, 26, 22 May 1995** (updates IFEX alerts dated 17, 11 July, 26 June, 26, 22 May): CPJ confirms that life imprisonment sentences were given to Chris Anyanwu (f), editor-in-chief of “The Sunday Magazine” (“TSM”), and Ben Charles Obi, […]