Click here to read more about press freedom conditions in NIGER New York, October 27, 2000 — Niger authorities have arrested three local journalists for publishing an article on an ongoing border dispute between Niger and neighboring Benin, sources in the capital, Niamey, told CPJ. Tahirou Glos, editor of the independent Niamey weekly L’Enquêteur, and…
New York, October 25, 2000 — In an apparent move to limit television coverage of anti-government demonstrations in Lima, the Peruvian Air Force has imposed flight restrictions that effectively bar news stations from flying helicopters over the capital.
Click here to read more about press freedom conditions in IRAN New York, October 24, 2000 — Iran’s hard-line judiciary banned three reformist newspapers yesterday, bringing to at least 27 the total number of papers shut down since April, when the conservative Press Court launched a broad press crackdown.
Click here to read more about press freedom conditions in ZIMBABWE New York, October 19, 2000 — Zimbabwean soldiers attacked four international journalists yesterday in the western Harare township of Dzivarasekwa, according to international news reports and CPJ sources in the region.
New York, October 11, 2000 — Guerrilla forces from the National Liberation Army (ELN) released reporter Jaime Horacio Arango and photographer Jesús Abad Colorado on October 8, two days after abducting them at a roadblock in the central department of Antioquia, according to local reports and CPJ sources.
New York, October 10, 2000 – -Independent Serbian journalist Miroslav Filipovic, who was jailed by the Milosevic regime this spring on espionage charges, was released from a military prison today, international and local media sources have reported. Filipovic, a Kraljevo-based correspondent for the Belgrade-daily Danas, Agence France-Presse, and the London-based Institute for War & Peace…
New York, October 6, 2000 — Former Ciudad Juárez police commissioner Javier Benavides González announced earlier this week that he has dropped the criminal-defamation suit he had filed against editor Jesús Antonio Pinedo Cornejo and reporter Luis Villagrana of the weekly Semanario.
Click here to read more about press freedom conditions in RUSSIA New York, October 6, 2000–A local court in Makhachkala, the capital of Russia’s southern republic of Dagestan, convicted radio reporter Andrei Babitsky of using false documents and sentenced him to pay a fine 13,200 rubles (about US$475), according to international and local media reports.
Click here to read more about press freedom conditions in ZIMBABWE. New York, October 6, 2000 — The High Court of Zimbabwe today ordered the return of equipment confiscated on Thursday from Capital Radio, a newly launched independent FM station. It also ordered the country’s Commissioner of Police to show why he should not be…
Click here to read more about press freedom conditions in AZERBAIJAN New York, October 5, 2000 — Azeri editor Rauf Arifoglu was released today from solitary confinement at the Ministry for National Security in Baku after more than six weeks of pre-trial detention. Arifoglu was required to submit a written assurance that he would not…