Reporters Without Borders (RSF)

In a 20 April 1995 letter, the Minister of the Interior of Gabon ordered the head of the national printing press to cease printing the newspapers “Le Bucheron” and “La Griffe”. The Minister justified his decision by explaining that “`Le Bucheron’ has reprinted information from newspapers we have explicitly banned from distribution in our territory […]

Abdelkader Hadj Benaamane, the Tamanrasset correspondent for the official news agency Algerie Presse Service (APS), was arrested over ten days ago and is being held in a prison in the region of Tamanrasset. Charges have not yet been officially brought against Abdelkader Hadj Benaamane, but seem to be in connection with an internal wire written […]

Several journalists were reportedly beaten by soldiers after two anti-Israeli attacks in Gaza on 9 April 1995. At least three of the journalists were held and questioned by soldiers. They are Shlomi Eldar, of Israeli State Television; Najib Abu Djubein, a cameraman for the Associated Press news agency; and Muhammad Daoudi, a Worldwide Television News […]

Francis Vincent, a South African journalist and the Johannesburg bureau chief for the international British television news agency Worldwide Television News (WTN), along with his interpreter, a Burundian student from the Ngagara district, were killed on 6 April 1995 at approximately 18:00 hours. They were the victims of an ambush 12 kilometres north of the […]

Taher al-Nounou, Gaza correspondent for the East Jerusalem daily “Al Nahar”, was arrested by Palestinian police on 5 March 1995, reports RSF. He is accused of have “spread false information.” Tahar al-Nounou had written an article affirming that the 2 April explosion which killed Hamas militants could have been caused by a time bomb, a […]

Makhlouf Boukhezar, a journalist with the Algerian state television network ENTV, was killed in his home in Constantine overnight from 3 to 4 April 1995. His attackers, who passed themselves off a police officers, slashed the journalist’s throat. According to RSF, Makhlouf Boukhezar death brings the total of journalists killed in Algeria since May 1993 […]

On 30 March 1995, Pape Sane, Badara Sowe and Ibrahima Ernest, journalists with the newspaper “The Point”, were detained by Gambian security forces. The journalists were arrested reportedly in connection with articles published in the 30 March edition of “The Point”. The articles concern a prison revolt at Mile Two, and the holding of four […]

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 […]