Committee to Protect Journalists (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 […]

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 […]

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, […]