Chokehold on Serbia
Country report, 1999 Text of the Serbian Information Law Other attacks on the press in Serbia Main Stories August 18: Another Serbian journalist jailed for “spreading false news” August 17: Filipovic hospitalized again with heart condition August 10: CPJ joins petition drive to free Miroslav Filipovic July 27: Journalist or Spy? July 26:Filipovic sentenced to…
Media on strike to protest government crackdown
Your Excellency: The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is deeply disturbed by the illegal arrests of Rauf Arifoglu and Etibar Djebrayiloglu, respectively editor-in-chief and special correspondent of the opposition daily Yeni Musavat, and by the illegal banning of the independent newspaper Uch Noqte. We fear that these and other incidents constitute an organized government campaign to stifle independent journalism in Azerbaijan during the run-up to the November 5 parliamentary elections.
Journalist hospitalized after police interrogation
Your Excellency: The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is alarmed by the harsh treatment to which three journalists from the Bishkek independent weekly Delo N were recently subjected by agents of the Ministry of National Security. After a long and brutal interrogation on August 16, one of the journalists was hospitalized with a heart condition, according to CPJ sources.
Reporter assaulted after investigating police corruption
August 21, 2000 His Excellency Leonid Kuchma President of Ukraine vul. Bankivska 11 Kyiv, Ukraine Via Fax: 011-380-44-293-7364/291-6161/293-1001 Your Excellency, The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is outraged by the recent assault on Valentina Vasilchenko, a freelance journalist from the city of Cherkassy who was apparently beaten up in retaliation for a series of articles…
Filipovic Hospitalized Again with Heart Condition
Click here to read more about press freedom conditions in YUGOSLAVIA New York, August 17, 2000 — Serbian journalist Miroslav Filipovic was transferred from a military prison in Nis, where he is serving a seven-year sentence for espionage, to the city’s military hospital on Tuesday. He was admitted to the hospital with significant arrhythmia of…
Georgia: Local police assault journalist for covering police corruption
Your Excellency, The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is outraged by the recent assault on Vasil Silagadze, a Georgian journalist who was apparently beaten up by local police officers after he published an article alleging corruption among high-ranking law enforcement officials, including the interior minister.