Click here to read more about press freedom conditions in ZIMBABWE New York, November 2, 2000 — Zimbabwe’s minister of information and publicity has threatened to charge two independent Harare newspapers, the Daily News and the weekly Standard, and their senior staff with criminal defamation. The minister also warned that the government would soon amend…
Click here to read more about press freedom conditions in ANGOLA New York, October 30, 2000 — The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) today condemned the decision by the Supreme Court of Angola to impose harsh sentences on three journalists prosecuted for defaming government officials, including President José Eduardo Dos Santos.
Read the OAS Declaration of Principles on Freedom of Expression [English] | [Spanish] New York, October 26, 2000 — The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) welcomes the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights’ strong statement of support for press freedom in the Americas.
Click here to read more about press freedom conditions in NIGER New York, October 27, 2000 — Niger authorities have arrested three local journalists for publishing an article on an ongoing border dispute between Niger and neighboring Benin, sources in the capital, Niamey, told CPJ. Tahirou Glos, editor of the independent Niamey weekly L’Enquêteur, and…
New York, October 25, 2000 — In an apparent move to limit television coverage of anti-government demonstrations in Lima, the Peruvian Air Force has imposed flight restrictions that effectively bar news stations from flying helicopters over the capital.
Click here to read more about press freedom conditions in IRAN New York, October 24, 2000 — Iran’s hard-line judiciary banned three reformist newspapers yesterday, bringing to at least 27 the total number of papers shut down since April, when the conservative Press Court launched a broad press crackdown.
Click here to read more about press freedom conditions in ZIMBABWE New York, October 19, 2000 — Zimbabwean soldiers attacked four international journalists yesterday in the western Harare township of Dzivarasekwa, according to international news reports and CPJ sources in the region.
New York, October 11, 2000 — Guerrilla forces from the National Liberation Army (ELN) released reporter Jaime Horacio Arango and photographer Jesús Abad Colorado on October 8, two days after abducting them at a roadblock in the central department of Antioquia, according to local reports and CPJ sources.
New York, October 10, 2000 – -Independent Serbian journalist Miroslav Filipovic, who was jailed by the Milosevic regime this spring on espionage charges, was released from a military prison today, international and local media sources have reported. Filipovic, a Kraljevo-based correspondent for the Belgrade-daily Danas, Agence France-Presse, and the London-based Institute for War & Peace…