Click here to read more about press freedom conditions in TURKEY New York, September 29, 2000 — A Turkish journalist standing trial for “insulting” Turkey’s powerful military in a book of interviews with former conscripts of the civil conflict in southeastern Turkey was acquitted of all charges today.
Click here to read more about press freedom conditions in TURKEY New York, NY September 28, 2000 – A Turkish criminal court is expected to issue a verdict tomorrow in the case of journalist Nadire Mater, who faces up to twelve years in prison on charges of “insulting” the powerful Turkish military. The charges stem…
Read more about press freedom conditions in Russia New York, September 22, 2000 — Late last night, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) reporter Iskandr Khatloni was attacked in his Moscow apartment by an unknown, axe-wielding assailant. Khatloni was struck twice in the head, according to the Moscow bureau of RFE/RL. He then stumbled onto the…
Click here to read more about press freedom conditions in RUSSIA New York, September 22, 2000 — Alarmed at what they see as serious and intensifying threats against press freedom in Russia, leaders of major international free-press organizations have called on President Vladimir Putin to respect freedom of expression.
Click here to read more about press freedom conditions in AZERBAIJAN New York, September 21, 2000 — Azeri editor Rauf Arifoglu, jailed since August 22 on charges of terrorism, illegal possession of arms, and attempted hijacking, has been hit with a new charge of “calling for a coup d’etat.” If convicted on all counts, he…
Click here to read more about press freedom conditions in the DRC New York, September 21, 2000 — Two Kinshasa-based editors accused of high treason and threatened with the death penalty were sentenced to lengthy prison terms last week. On September 12, Emile-Aimé Kakese Vinalu of Le Carrousel and Jean-Pierre Ekanga Mukuna of La Tribune…
New York, September 20, 2000 — State security agents detained Jesús and Jadir Hernández Hernández, two brothers who report for the independent news agency Habana Press, for over three days in a small town outside Havana, according to foreign press reports and CPJ sources in Cuba. Early in the morning on September 15, agents from…
Press freedom conditions in the PHILIPPINES | Map of Philippines | Previous coverage of the Jolo hostage crisis | Hostage to the News: A journalist’s first-hand account New York, September 20, 2000 — French journalists Jean-Jacques Le Garrec and Roland Madura escaped last night from their rebel captors on the southern Philippine island of Jolo.…
Read more about press freedom conditions in Russia New York, September 20, 2000 — A regional court in the Russian republic of Dagestan announced yesterday that the trial of the Russian journalist Andrei Babitsky will begin at 10 a.m. on Monday, October 2. Babitsky, a Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) correspondent whose reporting on the…
Click here to read more about press freedom conditions in PHILIPPINES See map of Philippines New York, September 18, 2000—As Philippine military forces pursue rebels on the island of Jolo, Der Spiegel correspondent Andreas Lorenz, who spent much of July as a hostage on Jolo, examines the ethical challenges journalists face when they pursue extremely…