Dear Mr. McKinnon, On the occasion of World Press Freedom Day, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is writing to express its concerns about press freedom violations in Malaysia and Sierra Leone, which have been Commonwealth member states since 1957 and 1961, respectively. We would like to draw your attention to the fact that the leaders of these Commonwealth countries rank among CPJ’s “10 worst enemies of the press” for 2000.
Your Excellency: On the occasion of World Press Freedom Day, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is writing to remind you that the illegal detention of Freddy Loseke Lisumbu la Yayenga, editor of the Kinshasa-based weekly La Libre Afrique, is entering its fifth consecutive month.
Click here to read more about press freedom conditions in ZIMBABWE. New York, May 3, 2000— Zimbabwe authorities cleared all charges yesterday against Associated Press photographer Obed Zilwa, who had been held on suspicion of perpetrating a terrorist bomb attack on the Harare offices of the Daily News, local sources told CPJ.
Click here to read more about press freedom conditions in ZIMBABWE. [Click here to read CPJ’s April 27 protest letter to President Mugabe.] New York, April 27, 2000 — On April 26, Harare airport police arrested Obed Zilwa, an Associated Press photographer, on suspicion that he may have been involved in an April 22 bomb…
Click here to read more about press freedom conditions in ANGOLA. New York, April 19, 2000 — The trial of journalist Andre Domigos Mussamo, accused of “revealing state secrets” in an unpublished article based on a provincial governor’s unpublished letter, has been set for April 26, according to CPJ’s sources in Luanda.
Your Excellency: The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) condemns the April 16 closure of Horizon FM, a privately-owned radio station based in Ouagadougou. The station appears to have been closed because it criticized your government for failing to adequately investigate the December 1998 murder of Norbert Zongo, editor of the newspaper L’Indépendant.
Your Excellency: The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is outraged by the April 9 kidnapping and torture of Jules Toualy, a reporter with the private daily Le Jeune Democrate, by two soldiers close to the ruling National Public Salvation Committee (CNSP).