May 24,1999 His Excellency Yasser Arafat President Palestinian National Authority Al-Muntada, Gaza Your Excellency, The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is deeply alarmed by recent efforts by the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) to silence print and broadcast media in the West Bank and Gaza. On May 22 and May 23, Palestinian security authorities arrested three…
May 21, 1999 His Excellency Zine El-Abdine Ben Ali President of the Republic of Tunisia c/o His Excellency Noureddine Mejjoub 1515 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W. Washington, DC 20005 Your Excellency, The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is outraged over yesterday’s assault on journalist Taoufik Ben Brik, a freelance reporter working for a number of European newspapers,…
May 19,1999 His Excellency Bulent Ecevit Prime Minister Basbakanlik 06573 Ankara, Turkey Your Excellency, The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is outraged by the criminal conviction of journalist Oral Calislar, a columnist for the daily Cumhurriyet. On May 18, Calislar was convicted of disseminating “separatist propaganda” under Article 8 of the Anti-Terror Law and sentenced to…
May 6, 1999 His Excellency Zine El-Abdine Ben Ali President of the Republic of Tunisia c/o His Excellency Noureddine Mejjoub 1515 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W. Washington, DC 20005 Your Excellency, The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is outraged over yesterday’s assault on journalist Taoufik Ben Brik, a freelance reporter working for a number of European newspapers,…
During little more than a decade in power, President Zine Abdine Ben Ali has reduced Tunisia’s once-respectable press to one of the most restricted in the Arab world. On World Press Freedom Day, May 3, CPJ named Ben Ali as one of the world’s 10 worst Enemies of the Press. Tunisian journalists continue to operate…
On May 3, 1999, World Press Freedom Day, the Committee to Protect Journalists, for the second consecutive year, named Tunisian President Zine Abdine Ben Ali as one of the world’s top 10 Enemies of the Press. Since ousting strongman Habib Bourguiba from power in 1987, Ben Ali has helped to transform Tunisia’s press into one…
On May 3, in conjunction with World Press Freedom Day, CPJ announced its annual identification of the top 10 Enemies of the Press worldwide. Those who made the list this year, as in the past, earned the dubious distinction by exhibiting particular zeal for the ruthless suppression of journalists. Gen. Sani Abacha of Nigeria was…
1999 February 7, 1999 Abbas al-Tarabili, Al-Wafd, LEGAL ACTION Muhammad Abdel Alim, Al-Wafd, LEGAL ACTION Between February 7 and February 8, al-Tarabili, co-editor in chief of the opposition daily Al-Wafd, and Abdel Alim, a reporter for the paper, were questioned by state security prosecutors on charges of “publishing false information to harm public interests, inciting public opinion,…