Dear Mr. Mirzorian, The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is greatly disturbed by the arrest and continued detention of Vahram Aghajanian, a journalist with the newspaper Tasnerord Nahang in the territory of Nagorno-Karabakh, and a contributor to the Yerevan, Armenia-based paper Iravunk.
Your Excellency: The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is deeply disturbed by several recent incidents in which individuals closely linked to your political party attacked individual journalists and a local publishing house in Sarajevo.
New York, June 22, 2000 — Unknown gunmen shot an editor from Kosovo’s only multi-ethnic radio station in Pristina on Tuesday night, June 20, according to local and international news reports. Valentina Cukic, the editor of Serbian-language programming on Pristina’s Radio Kontakt, was shot at approximately 9 p.m. on Tuesday evening, according to local news…
Your Excellency: The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is greatly disturbed by the fact that an independent journalist in your country has been jailed for insulting a judge. On June 19, a Jalal-Abad city court sentenced Moldosali Ibraimov, a reporter with the independent regional weekly Akyikat, to two years imprisonment for criminal defamation. He was also fined 100,000 soms (US$1,230); a similar fine was imposed on Akyikat, according to local news reports and CPJ sources in Bishkek. He is currently in jail pending an appeal.
Your Excellency, The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is deeply disturbed by the brutal beating of an independent Armenian journalist. We call on you to ensure that this attack is investigated, and that its perpetrators are brought to justice.
New York, June 14, 2000 — The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) today expressed concern that the arrest of Vladimir Gusinsky, the head an independent Russian media company that has been the target of state harassment for several years, was designed to intimidate journalists and stifle press coverage. Russian politicians and journalists have condemned the…
Click here to read more about press freedom conditions in RUSSIA. New York, June 12, 2000 — Brice Fleutiaux, the French photographer kidnapped by Chechen rebels last October, was freed today by Russian special forces, according to international news reports. An Interior Ministry spokesman in Moscow reported Fleutiaux’s release Monday, but provided no further details.
New York, June 12, 2000 — The Committee to Protect Journalists is deeply concerned that the tactics Luxembourg police used last week to shoot an armed man who was holding 25 children hostage in a daycare center could increase the risks journalists face in dangerous situations. On Thursday, June 1, Luxembourg police officers led the…
Your Excellency, The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is disturbed by your government’s apparent efforts to intimidate, bankrupt, and ultimately silence the Almaty independent weekly Nachnem s Ponedelnika in response to its revelations of alleged official corruption.