World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers

(WAN/IFEX) – The following is a WAN press release: **Updates IFEX alerts of 10 February, 9 February, 8 February, 3 February, 29 January, 27 January, 25 January, 22 January, 21 January, 18 January, 15 January and 13 January 1999** Paris, 11 February 1999 For immediate release WAN Condemns Zimbabwe Press Crackdown The World Association of […]

(WAN/IFEX) – The following is a WAN press release: **Updates IFEX alerts of 10 February, 9 February, 8 February, 3 February, 29 January, 27 January, 25 January, 22 January, 21 January, 18 January, 15 January and 13 January 1999** Paris, 11 February 1999 For immediate release WAN Condemns Zimbabwe Press Crackdown The World Association of […]

(WAN/IFEX) – On 20 December 1997, amendments to both the Law on the Press and Other Media and the Administrative Offence Code were passed by the Council of the Republic of Belarus. On 8 January these amendments were signed by Alexander Lukashenko, President of the Republic. While acknowledging that several of the amendments are minor […]

(WAN/IFEX) – China’s most prominent dissident, Wei Jingsheng, will be the keynote speaker at a special conference on freedom of expression to be held in Stockholm, Sweden, on 31 March 1998. Mr Wei was allowed to leave China for the United States last November for medical treatment, after serving eighteen years in prison for his […]

(WAN/IFEX) – According to reports, on 8 January the Ministry of Information suspended several newspapers on the grounds that they had insulted national leaders and threatened national security. The Ministry ordered the seizure of all copies of these newspapers and warned printing companies that authorities would punish those who violated the order. The newspapers affected […]

(WAN/IFEX) – UN Secretary General Kofi Annan and Nobel Literature Prize laureate Wole Soyinka are among those contributing to a package of essays, interviews, ads, and graphics celebrating press freedom now being distributed to 15,000 newspapers worldwide for publication on 3 May, World Press Freedom Day. The package, designed by the World Association of Newspapers […]

(WAN/IFEX) – Three editors of “Green Anarchist” magazine, Saxon Burchnall-Wood, Steve Booth and Noel Molland, were each sentenced to three years in jail on 14 November 1997 after being found guilty of conspiring to incite persons unknown to commit criminal damage. The charges arose from their dissemination of radical animal rights literature. Recommended Action Send […]

(WAN/IFEX) – A “human rights coordinating committee” charged with examining measures to “expand freedom of the press and freedom of expression” will report its findings to the Turkish Cabinet “by December”, a delegation from the World Association of Newspapers (WAN) was informed in Ankara on 5 November 1997. Mr Sukru Sina Gurel, Minister of State […]