Click here to read more about press freedom conditions in AZERBAIJAN New York, September 21, 2000 — Azeri editor Rauf Arifoglu, jailed since August 22 on charges of terrorism, illegal possession of arms, and attempted hijacking, has been hit with a new charge of “calling for a coup d’etat.” If convicted on all counts, he…
Click here to read more about press freedom conditions in the DRC New York, September 21, 2000 — Two Kinshasa-based editors accused of high treason and threatened with the death penalty were sentenced to lengthy prison terms last week. On September 12, Emile-Aimé Kakese Vinalu of Le Carrousel and Jean-Pierre Ekanga Mukuna of La Tribune…
New York, September 20, 2000 — State security agents detained Jesús and Jadir Hernández Hernández, two brothers who report for the independent news agency Habana Press, for over three days in a small town outside Havana, according to foreign press reports and CPJ sources in Cuba. Early in the morning on September 15, agents from…
Press freedom conditions in the PHILIPPINES | Map of Philippines | Previous coverage of the Jolo hostage crisis | Hostage to the News: A journalist’s first-hand account New York, September 20, 2000 — French journalists Jean-Jacques Le Garrec and Roland Madura escaped last night from their rebel captors on the southern Philippine island of Jolo.…
Read more about press freedom conditions in Russia New York, September 20, 2000 — A regional court in the Russian republic of Dagestan announced yesterday that the trial of the Russian journalist Andrei Babitsky will begin at 10 a.m. on Monday, October 2. Babitsky, a Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) correspondent whose reporting on the…
Click here to read more about press freedom conditions in PHILIPPINES See map of Philippines New York, September 18, 2000—As Philippine military forces pursue rebels on the island of Jolo, Der Spiegel correspondent Andreas Lorenz, who spent much of July as a hostage on Jolo, examines the ethical challenges journalists face when they pursue extremely…
New York, September 15, 2000–The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) welcomes today’s announcement that the United Nations is investigating the October, 1975 murders of five Australia-based journalists in East Timor. [Go to map of region] CPJ urges UN authorities to expand the investigation to include the murder of Australian free-lance journalist Roger East, said to…
Dear Mr. Gagné, The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is deeply concerned about yesterday’s shooting of Michel Auger, a veteran crime reporter with the French-language daily Le Journal de Montréal. Auger was shot one day after the publication of his latest article on organized crime in Quebec Province.
Your Excellency: The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is deeply concerned about the lack of progress in the prosecutor general’s investigation into the kidnapping and torture of Jineth Bedoya Lima, a noted investigative reporter with the Bogotá-based daily El Espectador.