Reporters Without Borders (RSF)

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 […]

Source: “Quds Press”, London On 16 January 1995, the offices of the Palestinian “Quds Press” in Jerusalem were raided for 75 minutes by a 19 member Israeli police unit, who seized computers and files and made a record of the names and identifications of personnel. The officer in charge gave no explanation as to the […]

On 14 January 1995, on the basis of the press law of 6 April 1992, Minister of Information Khieu Kanharith suspended the “Samleng Yuvachun Khmer”, “for having offended the governmental institutions” of Cambodia by publishing a picture showing the Prime Minister, Norodom Ranariddh, with a sack of gold on his head. According to information received […]

**Update to IFEX CH alert dated 13 December 1994** The following four journalists and printer from the weekly “The New Breed” have been in detention at the Pademba Road prison in Freetown since 12 December 1994: Julius Spencer, publisher; Donald John, editor-in-chief; Alfred Conteh, business manager; Mohamed Bangura, journalist; Abdul Bashiru Alusine Kargbo, director of […]

Siaka Massaquoi, editor-in-chief of the weekly “The Vision”, and Ojukwu Sesay, a correspondent for a Gambian newspaper, were both arrested on 10 January 1995 by military security police. The two journalists were taken to military security offices where they were interrogated. The journalists were asked about their sources for articles criticizing the government with respect […]

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. […]