Click here to read more about press freedom conditions in IRAN New York, August 7, 2000 — A bill to reform Iran’s harsh press laws was quashed on Sunday by the country’s supreme religious leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. The next day, a liberal opposition journalist was arrested, according to wire service reports.
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…
New York, August 7, 2000 –To protest the repression of writers in Serbia, Homero Aridjis, the President of International PEN, is refusing the “Smederevo Golden Key” literary prize at the Smederevo Fall Poetry Festival (Belgrade, October 2000). Mr. Aridjis, internationally acclaimed Mexican poet and a columnist for the daily Reforma, was invited to come to…
Click here to read more about press freedom conditions in COLOMBIA New York, July 11, 2000 — On June 20, guerrillas from the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, the armed movement known by its Colombian acronym FARC, confiscated and burned copies of the Bogotá-based daily El Tiempo.
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…
Click here to read more about press freedom conditions in CÔTE D’IVOIRE New York, July 7, 2000 — On July 5, in the aftermath of what he described as a “failed coup,” Côte d’Ivoire’s military ruler General Robert Gueï warned local journalists to be “careful” because they will now be severely punished for politically motivated…
Click here to read more about press freedom conditions in PANAMA New York, July 6, 2000 — Panama Attorney General José Antonio Sossa will decide this evening if he will order the arrest of journalist Carlos Singares who is charged with showing “disrespect” for a public official for his story on Sossa’s alleged visits to…
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.
New York, June 30, 2000–The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) applauds Sri Lanka’s Supreme Court ruling today that the government’s system of news censorship is illegal, and that the decisions of the chief censor therefore have no force in law. A unanimous three-judge panel delivered the verdict in response to a petition brought by the…
Click here to read more about press freedom conditions in PERU PERU: Polish police detain former TV station owner Baruch Ivcher at Peru’s request (Posted June 29, 2000) New York, June 29, 2000 — On Wednesday, Polish police detained Baruch Ivcher, former owner of the Lima-based TV station Frecuencia Latina-Canal 2, for approximately five hours…