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.
Your Excellency: The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is outraged by your government’s detention of a four-member news team from Britain’s Channel Four television network, who were arrested by police at their hotel in Monrovia late Friday night, August 18, and have reportedly been charged with espionage.
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…
Your Excellency: On the occasion of the 40th anniversary of your country’s proclamation of independence, the Committee to Protect Journalists writes to express its grave concern about the recent deterioration of press freedom standards in the Central African Republic.
Your Excellency: The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is outraged at the recent arson attack against the editorial offices of the Banjul-based private broadcaster Radio 1 FM. While a police investigation is ongoing, sources in the Gambia told CPJ that the attack might have come in response to Radio 1 FM’s critical discussions of your government’s human-rights and other policies.
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.
Your Excellency, Ahead of the August 6-7 SADC Summit of Heads of State, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) wishes to express its grave concern about the deplorable state of press freedom in several SADC member states. Our research shows an alarming pattern of governments interfering with the free flow of information and using harsh, outdated laws to prosecute journalists for their work.
Your Excellency: The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is deeply saddened by yesterday’s killing of Sergey Novikov, owner of the independent radio station Vesna in the city of Smolensk. Novikov, 36, was shot and killed in the stairwell of his apartment building at around 9 p.m. on July 26. The killer, who remains at large, shot him four times and then escaped through a back door.
Your Excellency: The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is outraged at the prison sentences recently imposed on three journalists from the private biweekly publication Dikalo in retaliation for their coverage of alleged corruption and mismanagement at a local trade union.