Reporters Without Borders (RSF)

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 […]

**Updates IFEX CH alerts dated 6, 5 October, 1 April, 4 March 1994, and 14 September 1993** Wei Jingsheng, the detained journalist and Nobel Peace Prize nominee who RSF deems a “plaything of a repressive regime,” has been kept in detention since April 1994. On 16 March 1995, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Shen Guofang said […]

Early on the evening of 16 March 1995, Ahmad Taufik and Liston P. Siregar, members of the Alliance of Independent Journalists (AJI), were arrested and detained by police in Jakarta. The journalists had gathered, along with several political figures, at AJI headquarters to celebrate the end of Ramadan. Until its banning in June 1994, both […]

**Updates IFEX CH alert dated 6 March 1995** RSF confirms the lifting of the ban on the French-language daily “La Tribune”; the newspaper resumed publication on 8 March. The daily was banned on 5 March by order of the Minister of the Interior.

On the morning of 8 March 1995 at approximately 9:00, Joao de Barros, editor-in-chief of the weekly “Correio da Guine-Bissau”, was beaten and arrested at the Bissau airport as he was waiting to board a plane to Cape Verde. Police officers detained Joao de Barros, claiming he did not have permission to leave the country. […]

At a 24 February meeting with employees of the Belarus State Radio and Television, President Lukashenko said: “When one watches or listens to your programs the question unfortunately arises too often: where does this militant incompetence come from, this obvious reluctance to support the political course of the President of this nation?” After recognizing the […]

Two journalists from the weekly “The Free Press” were sentenced to jail by the Supreme Court on 21 February 1995. Kwabena Mensah- Bonsu, a columnist for the weekly, was sentenced to one month in prison. “Free Press” editor-in-chief Eben Quarcoo was sentenced to one day in jail and fined 100 000 cedis (equivalent to 550FF […]

**Updates IFEX CH alert dated 17 January 1995** Mohammed Zaaf, a correspondent for the Italian news agency ANSA who was arrested with two of his sons on 14 January 1995 and accused of “harbouring a known islamic militant,” remains in detention. After being held for questioning on 14 January (see IFEX alert), Mohammed Zaaf was […]