Nine journalists attacked in two days of anti-Milosevic protests in Belgrade
Click here to read CPJ’s recent protest letter to the Milosevic government September 30, 1999— At least four reporters were injured and the offices of a major opposition newspaper closed as police continued to use force to muzzle demonstrations during the second consecutive day of protests in Belgrade on Thursday, September 30.
CPJ Update: Two Journalists Escape, While One Faces Trial in Yugoslavia
June 9, 1999 — The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), a nonpartisan organization devoted to safeguarding press freedom around the world, has confirmed the following new developments in the cases of three independent journalists targeted by the Yugoslav military for practicing their profession. Croatian journalist escapes Yugoslav military incarceration
News on Yugoslavia
1999 17-June-99 CPJ update: Correspondents Shot in Kosovo; Yugoslav Army Harassment Continues in Montenegro; While Exiled Daily Distributes in Pristina. British journalists injured in Kosovo attack 14-June-99 CPJ Update:German Journalists Killed in Kosovo 09-June-99 CPJ Update: Two Journalists Escape, While One Faces Trial in Yugoslavia 12-May-99 CPJ Update: Journalists Caught in the Crossfire 27-April-99 CPJ Update: Milosevic regime tightens…
Contact
For more information about this report, you may contact: Chrystyna Lapychak, in New York (phone: 212-465-93499×101; e-mail:[email protected])
Introduction
Since March 24, when NATO began its bombing campaign in Yugoslavia, CPJ has been monitoring conditions facing journalists covering the conflict. CPJ’s latest update reports on the death of two German journalists, a sniper attack on British journalists in Kosovo, and the fact the Albanian-language newsapaper Koha Ditore is being distributed inside Kosovo.(updated June 23,…
CPJ update: Correspondents Shot in Kosovo; Yugoslav Army Harassment Continues in Montenegro; While Exiled Daily Distributes in Pristina. British journalists injured in Kosovo attack
June 17, 1999 — Two British journalists and their ethnic Albanian interpreter were injured late on June 16 when unidentified gunmen fired at their rental car near the village of Stimjle in southern Kosovo, according to editors at Glasgow’s Daily Record. The three men, all working for the Daily Record, were heading from Prizren toward Macedonia to…
CPJ Alert: German journalists killed in Kosovo
June 14, 1999 — Two German journalists on assignment in Kosovo were fatally shot by unidentified gunmen on June 13 just outside Dulje, some 25 miles south of the provincial capital Pristina. Veteran photographer Volker Kraemer, 56, died on the scene, while 35-year-old Gabriel Gruener, an experienced Balkans correspondent, expired en route to a hospital…