1999 April 28, 1999 Taoufik Ben Brik, La Croix HARASSED Ben Brik, a correspondent for the Paris-based daily La Croix, was prevented by Tunisian authorities from leaving the country for a planned trip to Switzerland after police at Tunis-Carthage Airport confiscated his passport, claiming that the document was missing a page and therefore Ben Brik could…
New York, N.Y., May 17, 1999-The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) today urged the government of Yemen to immediately halt its clampdown on independent and opposition journalists, which in recent months has included the prosecutions of six newspapers for their published criticisms of authorities. Since February, authorities have taken a series of other punitive measures…