Click here to read more about press freedom conditions in VIETNAM. New York, April 14, 2000 — Journalist Sylvaine Pasquier, a reporter for the French weekly magazine L’Express, was expelled from Vietnam by local authorities, who put her on an April 14 commercial flight to Bangkok. Pasquier, a French citizen, was reporting in southern Ho…
Click here to read more about press freedom conditions in MEXICO. New York, April 13, 2000 — CPJ is investigating the recent killing of Pablo Pineda, a reporter and photographer with the Mexican newspaper La Opinión in the border city of Matamoros. On April 9 at approximately 2:45 a.m., agents from the U.S. Border Patrol…
Click here to read more about press freedom conditions in ARGENTINA New York, August 4, 2000 — In an apparent attempt to silence press criticisms of local officials in the province of Santiago del Estero in northern Argentina, unidentified individuals have threatened and harassed two local newspapers, according to CPJ sources and local press reports.
Click here to read more about press freedom conditions in IRAN New York, August 4, 2000 — Iranian parliamentarians will debate proposed amendments to the country’s press law when the new Majles (parliament) opens in Tehran on Sunday, according to international news reports. The current Majles is dominated by reformist delegates who broadly support President…
Click here to read more about press freedom conditions in KYRGYZSTAN. New York, April 4, 2000 — A Bishkek city court recently found the local independent weekly Res Publika liable in yet another defamation suit. The paper is currently banned from publishing until it pays a fine resulting from an earlier lawsuit.
Click here to read more about press freedom conditions in SRI LANKA. New York, April 4, 2000 — Shortly before midnight on April 3, an explosive device was detonated at the home of Nellai G. Nadesan, a columnist for Veerakesari, the country’s leading Tamil-language newspaper. Nadesan was not injured in the blast, though the explosion…
Click here to read more about press freedom conditions in CAMEROON. New York, April 5, 2000 — On April 3, a criminal court in the western Cameroonian town of Bafoussam convicted Michel Eclador Pekoua on one count of defamation and sentenced him to six months in prison without parole, sources in Cameroon told CPJ. Pekoua…
Click here to read more about press freedom conditions in Morocco. New York, March 31, 2000 — A hard-hitting new Moroccan political weekly has been prevented from printing its fourth edition by one of its shareholders, the Committee to Protect Journalists has learned. The French-language weekly Demain was launched three weeks ago, but was blocked…
Click here to read more about press freedom conditions in Angola. New York, March 29, 2000— Angolan journalist Andre Domigos Mussamo, formerly chief editor of the Cuanza Norte provincial branch of the Angolan National Radio and a correspondent for the biweekly Folha 8, posted bail and was released from prison around March 16, sources in…
Click here to read CPJ’s letter to Mayor Giuliani New York, March 28, 2000 — Journalist Errol Maitland of the radio station WBAI was attacked by members of the New York Police Department (NYPD) while covering the March 25 funeral of Patrick Dorismond, a Haitian-American who was fatally shot by an NYPD officer on March…