New York, January 4, 2006—The Committee to Protect Journalists is concerned by an arson attack on private Cameroonian radio station Freedom FM. Fire broke out in the building housing the station on Tuesday evening, according to Freedom FM’s founder Pius Njawe, who received CPJ’s International Press Freedom Award in 1991. He told CPJ that police…
TEMPLATE Nueva York, 4 de enero del 2006–El Comité para la Protección de Periodistas (CPJ, por sus siglas en inglés) está preocupado por una acusación de censura gubernamental de un prominente periodista argentino cuyo programa de radio fue abruptamente sacado del aire. José “Pepe” Eliaschev señaló al CPJ que la emisora estatal Radio Nacional le…
New York, January 3, 2006—The Committee to Protect Journalists welcomes the release today of journalist Jiang Weiping, who has been jailed for five years for writing about corruption in his home province of Liaoning. CPJ honored Jiang in 2001 with an International Press Freedom Award. “In the four years since we honored Jiang Weiping for…
New York, January 3, 2006—The Committee to Protect Journalists is deeply concerned that the Belarusian prosecutor’s office has suspended an investigation of the murder of journalist Veronika Cherkasova. Local and international press reports said the authorities shelved the case on December 28 for lack of suspects. The authorities did not examine whether Cherkasova was stabbed…