Cambodia: Newspaper suspended again
Your Excellency: The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is disturbed by the Information Ministry’s decision to once again suspend publication of the Cambodia News Bulletin (Pritbat Pordamean Kampuchea), a bilingual fortnightly published in English and Khmer from the capital city, Phnom Penh.
Bangladesh: Gunmen kill journalist in his office
Your Excellency: The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) condemns yesterday’s assassination of veteran journalist Shamsur Rahman, special correspondent of the Bengali-language national daily Janakantha, and urges your government to ensure that the perpetrators of this terrible crime are brought to justice.
Cambodia: Independent weekly suspended for thirty days
Your Excellency: The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is deeply disturbed by the Information Ministry’s decision to suspend the publication of the Cambodia News Bulletin (Pritbat Pordamean Kampuchea), a bilingual weekly newspaper published in English and Khmer from the capital city, Phnom Penh.
BBC correspondent assaulted in Colombo
Click here to read more about press freedom conditions in SRI LANKA. New York, April 7, 2000 — CPJ condemns the April 6 assault on Elmo Fernando, correspondent for the BBC’s Sinhala-language service. Fernando was attacked in front of the Norwegian embassy in the capital city of Colombo by a group of demonstrators protesting Norway’s…
More journalists kidnapped
Click here to read more about press freedom conditions in the PHILIPPINES New York, July 10, 2000—The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is gravely concerned over the apparent kidnapping July 9 of three French journalists by members of the Abu Sayyaf rebel group in the Philippines. Reporter Maryse Burgot and cameramen Jean-Jacques Le Garrec and…
Philippines: Kidnapped German journalist still missing
Your Excellency: The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is deeply concerned about the safety of German journalist Andreas Lorenz, apparently kidnapped July 2 on the southern island of Jolo. CPJ calls on your government to ensure he remains unharmed and to secure his immediate release.
Government clamps censorship back into place
Your Excellency: The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) deplores your administration’s decision to reimpose censorship restrictions on the media. A July 1 amendment to the emergency regulations issued in early May gives Your Excellency the power to appoint a Competent Authority charged with enforcing the censorship provisions. This move undermines the spirit of last week’s ruling by the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka, in which a three-member bench unanimously held that the decisions of the chief censor were invalid and without legal force because he had been improperly appointed as the Competent Authority.
German journalist is kidnapped by rebel faction
Click here to read more about press freedom conditions in the PHILIPPINES Read CPJ’s letter New York, July 3, 2000- A German journalist was kidnapped at gunpoint on July 2 in the southern island of Jolo in the Philippines, according to international news reports.