Articles by Reporters Without Borders (RSF)
Police prevent holding of Palestinian press conference
A 2 January 1995 Palestinian press conference was banned by the authorities in East Jerusalem, reported Reporters sans frontieres (RSF) on 2 January. The police, led by police captain Arie Amit, prevented the conference on the topic of settlement in the occupied territories of the West Bank from taking place in an East Jerusalem hotel. […]
Newspaper “Correio da Guine Bissau” suspended
On the night of 29 December 1994, the Minister of Communications of Guinea-Bissau, Helder Proenca, suspended the publication of the independent newspaper “Correio da Guine Bissau”. In a press release, the Minister said that a debt to the government incurred by the newspaper was the reason for the suspension. The editor- in-chief of “Correio da […]
Two WTN journalists attacked by West Bank settlers; MBC camera stolen from cameraman Nidal Mansour
On 6 January 1995, two journalists with the British Worldwide Television News (WTN) network were attacked by a group of Jewish settlers at Halamish, a Jewish settlement in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. The camera crew was taking footage in the aftermath of an attack by Palestinian gunmen in which a woman was killed. The journalists […]