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Independent Nigerian journalist Nosa Igiebor has been languishing in prison since his arrest in December 1995. He was jailed for his critical coverage of the country’s military dictator, Gen. Sani Abacha. Though he was placed in solitary confinement, Igiebor was hardly alone. In fact, a record 182 journalists around the world were in jail at the end of 1995, all of them in retaliation for their reporting. That is one of the major findings of CPJ’s annual report Attacks on the Press in 1995: A Worldwide Survey. The 300-page report, which was released March 14 at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., documents in compelling detail hundreds of attempts to silence reporters and news organizations around the world last year. |
 The bullet-ridden wall pictured on the cover is a detail from a photograph taken in Somalia by American photojournalist Dan Eldon of Reuters. Eldon, Associated Press photojournalist Hansi Krauss, and Reuter colleagues Hosea Maina and Anthony Macharia were murdered in July 1993 by a Somali crowd angered by the death of 50 countrymen in an air raid on Gen. Mohamed Farah Aidid’s command post. Reuters/Dan Eldon |
- CPJ’s 15th anniversary
Reaffirming our mission - Fighting imposed silence
A short essay by Roger Rosenblatt - Enemies of the press
- A 10-year death toll
Where journalists were killed and why - Nigeria and Zambia campaigns
CPJ works to free Nigeria’s Nosa Igiebor and aid
Zambia’s Fred M’membe - Press faces hard times in Africa
An article by Howard W. French - Around the world
Briefs on the state of press freedom in
countries worldwide in 1995
Dangerous Assignments is published quarterly by the Committee to Protect Journalists, a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization founded in 1981 to monitor and promote freedom of the press around the world.
James Bucknell, Production
Angelo Machipisa, WebMaster