Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ)

**For background, see IFEX alerts dated 1, 2 August, 14 September 1994 and 2 February 1995** On 16 January, four stations were simultaneously closed in different parts of the island. The four are Voice of Taiwan Nation, which broadcasted from a mountain-top Buddhist temple to the north of Taipei, the Kaohsiung station Voice of Sweet […]

**For background see IFEX CH alerts dated 17 January 1995** A new form of censorship is being practised against non-mainstream publications in Turkey. On 6 January, police and courts began confiscating newspapers and magazines deemed “separatist” before they are distributed. The pro-Kurdish daily “Ozgur Ulke”, the right-wing weekly “Taraf”, the left-wing weeklies “Gercek” and “Alinteri”, […]

At the end of 1994, 17 of Romania’s major publications announced to their readers that they may shut down. The state-owned Letea paper mill is the only supplier of newsprint in the country. It announced that it will halt production for a few months due to raw materials shortages. The editors and publishers of the […]

Ocak Isik Yutcu, the first editor-in-chief of the now defunct “Ozgur Gundem” was sentenced on 28 December 1994 to 25 years in prison for separatist articles published in the pro-Kurdish daily in 1991. He was arrested and sent to jail when the appeals court upheld the first sentence for him in a series of more […]

On the morning of 3 January 1995, the Aden-based independent weekly “Al-Ayyam” paid the state-owned 14th of October Press in Aden to print its 200th issue. That night, the government printing facility returned the paper’s money, claiming that they could not print the issue because their equipment was in disrepair. On the morning of 4 […]

“Krasnaya Zvezda” (“Red Star”) correspondent Vladimir Zhitolenko was killed on 31 December 1994. “Krasnaya Zvezda” is the daily newspaper of the Russian Ministry of Defence. Zhitolenko was stepping out of an armoured personnel carrier in Grozny when he was hit with by two bullets. CPJ fears that press conditions in Chechnya may deteriorate as has […]

Source: Ukraine-based Russian journalist **Updates IFEX CH alert dated 15 December 1994** CPJ reports on 4 January that the circumstances in the 15 October 1994 arrest of publisher Gennady Romanov appear to be legitimate. On 15 December 1994, the IFEX CH distributed an appeal for information on the circumstances of the arrest of Romanov. It […]