Reporters Without Borders (RSF)

On 20 February 1995, Ahmed al-Seweifi, a journalist with the bi- weekly “Al-Chaab”, was refused entry to Saudi Arabia when he arrived at the airport in Jiddah. Ahmed al-Seweifi, who arrived from Cairo with his wife, had obtained the proper visa from the Saudi embassy in Cairo. The authorities in Jiddah, however, said that he […]

Lasantha Wickrematunga, editor of the “Sunday Leader”, and his wife Raine, features editor at the same newspaper, were attacked near their home in a Colombo suburb by four masked men on 6 February. The assailants stopped the journalists’ car, pulled them out and beat them with clubs. Mr. Wickrematunga was hospitalised with cuts and bruises, […]

Since the beginning of aggressions along the Peru-Ecuador border, Peruvian authorities have obstructed the work the international press. The foreign press corps has been excluded from two press conferences given by Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori. According to the Association for the Foreign Press in Peru (APEP), which represents 80 foreign correspondents accredited to report in […]

On the evening of 29 January 1995, an attempt was made on the life of Edouard Mutsinzi, editor-in-chief of the newspaper “Le Messager-Intumwa”. He was attacked in a bar in Nyamirambo (Kigali), while in the company of his wife, and several friends and journalists. A group of approximately five men armed with knives and fire […]

The Algerian Ministry of Communications suspended the weekly “La Nation” “until further notice” on 31 January 1995. A faxed notice was sent to the newspaper’s printer. The week before, minister Mohammed Benamar Zerhouni had said that he “reserved the right to use all available measures…against” the newspaper, after it published a letter said to have […]

On 26 January 1995, the monthly “Tri Thuc Va Cong Nghe”, published by a metal and iron industries association in Vietnam, was suspended until further notice by the Minister of Culture and Information for “modifying the presentation of its cover and publishing articles which do not conform to its principles and readership.” On 21 January, […]

**Updates IFEX CH alerts dated 14 November, 18 October 1994** Journalist Gao Yu, detained since 2 October 1993 and sentenced last November to six years in jail for “leaking state secrets”, is in poor health because the Yanqing prison authorities are not providing her with medical treatment for angina pectoris and Meniere’s disease. Furthermore, Ms. […]

On the morning of 6 January, copies of “Ozgur Ulke” were seized from the newspaper’s distribution centre. Editions of “Ozgur Ulke” have been seized in the past, but it has always been possible to obtain copies of the editions in their first hours at newsstands. The 6 January seizure marks the first time since the […]