Your Excellency, The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is gravely concerned by the continued deterioration of the press freedom situation in Cote d’Ivoire. While we welcome the release from prison today of Le Populaire publisher Raphael Lakpe, threats and attacks against opposition media have intensified alarmingly in recent weeks. In a September 10 letter to Your Excellency, CPJ expressed its deep concern that the prolonged detention of Lakpe and Le Populaire editor Jean Khalil Sylla (who remains in prison) would negatively affect press freedom in Cote d’Ivoire.
Your Excellency, The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is deeply disturbed by the latest brutal assault on photojournalists committed by the Dhaka police. On Friday, October 22, riot police were dispatched to subdue a demonstration held in the capital by Islamic activists. The police turned their batons on two newspaper photographers who were documenting their treatment of the protesters. Babul Talukder, a photographer for Dainik Dinkal,and Mintu, who works for Dainik Janata, were both badly beaten.
Your Excellencies, The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is deeply disturbed by today’s violent attack against Zeljko Kopanja, the founder and chief editor of Nezavisne Novine,the largest independent Serb daily in Bosnia-Hercegovina.
Your Excellency: The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is writing to express its profound indignation about yesterday’s brutal murder of radio journalist Rodolfo Julio Torres in the town of San Onofre, Sucre Department. We are urging you in the strongest possible terms to launch an exhaustive investigation into this lethal attack on press freedom, the third to have taken place in Colombia in less than three months.
Your Excellency: The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is concerned about the implications of this week’s abrupt transfer of Cheung Man-yee from her post as director of Radio Television Hong Kong (RTHK). Cheung has been a staunch defender of press freedom during her 13-year tenure as director of RTHK, a publicly funded broadcast agency with a long tradition of editorial autonomy.
Your Excellency: The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is writing to express its profound concern about Taher Shriteh, a veteran Gaza-based reporter for The New York Times,the British Broadcasting Corporation, and the Japanese daily Yomiuri Simbun,whose freedom of movement has been severely restricted by Israeli authorities.
Dear Mr. Sharif: The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) strongly protests the recent decision by the Jordan Press Association (JPA) to expel journalists Abdullah Hasanat, editor-in-chief of the English-language daily Jordan Times,Sultan Hattab, a columnist for the daily Al-Rai,and Jihad Momani, a columnist for the daily Al-Dustour.
Your Highness: The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is gravely concerned about Sunday’s decision by the Council of Ministers to suspend the daily Al-Siyassafor a period of five days. Al-Siyassabegan serving its suspension on Monday. The decision came in response to Al-Siyassa’sOctober 16 front-page story quoting Hamed al-Ali, a local Islamist figure who is secretary general of the Salafiyya Movement (haraka salafiyya).