World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers

(WAN/IFEX) – The following is a WAN press release: Paris, 18 July 2001 For immediate release Thirty-three Journalists Killed This Year: WAN A total of 33 journalists and other media workers have been killed in 2001, fueled by an epidemic of killings in Latin America and Asia, the World Association of Newspapers said Wednesday. One […]

(WAN/IFEX) – The following is a WAN press release: Paris, 16 July 2001 WAN Welcomes Syrian Journalist to Paris The World Association of Newspapers on Monday welcomed Syrian journalist and democracy advocate Nizar Nayouf to Paris, culminating an intense effort to get him out of prison and into a hospital for adequate medical treatment. “We […]

(WAN/IFEX) – The following is a 10 July 2001 WAN letter to South Korean President Kim Dae-jung: Paris, 10 July 2001 Your Excellency, We are writing on behalf of the World Association of Newspapers and World Editors Forum, which represent more than 17,000 newspapers in 93 countries, to express our serious concern over the unprecedented […]

(WAN/IFEX) – In a 7 July 2001 letter to Pakistani chief executive, General Pervez Musharraf, WAN expressed concern over the death sentence passed on newspaper owner Rehmat Shah Afridi. According to reports, Afridi, owner of the English-language daily “Frontier Post” and the Urdu-language daily “Maidan”, was sentenced to death by a Pakistani Anti-Narcotics Court on […]

(WAN/IFEX) – The following is a WAN press release: Paris, 4 July 2001 For immediate release WAN Meets Togolese Prime Minister, Calls for Journalist’s Release A delegation from the World Association of Newspapers has met with the Togolese Prime Minister, Agbeyome Kodjo, in Lomé to urge him to release imprisoned journalist Lucien Messan, the most […]

(WAN/IFEX) – The following is a WAN press release: Nizar Nayouf Abducted by Intelligence Agents Nizar Nayouf, the prominent Syrian journalist and democracy activist who was freed from prison last month, was abducted from a Damascus street on Wednesday, 20 June, apparently by Syrian intelligence agents. Sources told the World Association of Newspapers that six […]

(WAN/IFEX) – The following is a WAN press release: Hong Kong, 4 June 2001 The Golden Pen of Freedom The World Association of Newspapers (WAN) on Monday awarded its annual press freedom prize, the 2001 Golden Pen of Freedom, to imprisoned Burmese journalists San San Nweh and U Win Tin in recognition of their outstanding […]

(WAN/IFEX) – The following is a WAN press release: Hong Kong, 4 June 2001 World Congress Calls for Press Freedom in China The World Newspaper Congress and World Editors Forum opened Monday with praise for China for honouring its commitment to Hong Kong ­ and with a warning that it must reverse the repression it […]