New York, July 10, 2003—The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) condemns the recent closure by the Belarusian authorities of Russian television network NTV’s Belarus bureau, as well as the decision to cancel accreditation for the International Research and Exchanges Board (IREX) and Internews, both U.S. government-funded organizations that provide support to independent media. On July…
New York, July 10, 2003—The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is gravely concerned about Canadian-Iranian free-lance photographer Zahra Kazemi who is currently in serious condition in a hospital in Iran’s capital, Tehran. Kazemi, who has contributed to Recto Verso, a Montreal-based magazine, and the London-based photo agency Camera Press, is in a coma in a…
New York, July 10, 2003—The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) welcomes the release today of Belgian journalist Thierry Falise, French cameraman Vincent Reynaud, and their American translator and guide, Rev. Naw Karl Mua. Their release comes one week after the three were each sentenced to 15 years in prison for their alleged involvement in the…
New York, July 10, 2003—The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is dismayed that Moscow’s southeastern district visa and registration authorities (OVIR) have denied a foreign passport to journalist Grigory Pasko, who was released from prison in January after serving more than two years in prison. Pasko told CPJ in a telephone interview that officials denied…
New York, July 9, 2003—The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) welcomes the release today of Belgian journalist Thierry Falise, French cameraman Vincent Reynaud, and their American translator and guide, Rev. Naw Karl Mua. Their release comes one week after the three were each sentenced to 15 years in prison for their alleged involvement in the…
New York, July 8, 2003—The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) condemns the recent suspension of Al-Sada, the weekly newspaper of the Takaful party, a small Egyptian political group. Al-Sada editor Yasser Barakat told CPJ that the paper was suspended on June 25, and that agents from State Security Investigation department called in Essam Abdel Razek,…
Nova York, 8 de julho de 2003 – O Comitê para a Proteção dos Jornalistas (CPJ) assiste alarmado às recentes ameaças contra os comunicadores guatemaltecos, assim como a invasão da residência de um repórter, durante a qual foram roubadas as notas de uma investigação jornalística. Estes incidentes são os mais recentes de uma onda de…
New York, July 8, 2003—The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is alarmed by recent threats against two Guatemalan journalists and by the burglary of a reporter’s house in which his notes for an investigative article were stolen. These incidents are the latest in a series of threats and violent attacks against Guatemalan journalists during the…
“Press conditions in Aceh are going from bad to worse.” New York, July 7, 2003—The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) condemns the recent assault on radio reporter Alif Imam Nurlambang by Indonesian security officers in the northwestern province of Aceh, where a massive Indonesian military offensive is under way to crush a long-running separatist insurgency.…
New York, July 7, 2003—Richard Wild, a 24-year-old British free-lance cameraman, died on Saturday, July 5, after being gunned down in central Baghdad. In a separate incident, Jeremy Little, a free-lance soundman working for the U.S.-based television network NBC, died on Sunday of complications from injuries sustained during a grenade attack in central Iraq last…