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The UN and the Indonesian government both think they know who killed two journalists in East Timor last year. So why aren’t the suspects on trial?

Palestinian journalists have been dodging Israeli bullets and Arafat’s censors for years. Lately, the stakes have grown higher.

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…

[Unofficial Translation from Portuguese Original] LAW NO. ———/2000OF —————–/2000The pluralism of expression, as a consequence of the respect for democratic freedom and for freedom of the human being, requires, for its realization, a press law which should aim at guaranteeing press freedom, enshrined in Article 35 of the Constitutional Law.

Your Excellency: The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is concerned by the threatening posture adopted by an army inspection team sent yesterday to the headquarters of the Dawn Group of Newspapers at Haroon House in Karachi. The newspaper group includes some of Pakistan’s most influential and respected publications, including the English-language daily Dawn.

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CPJ documents Milesovic’s attempts to throttle the independent media. Including breaking news, bulletins, and background. BackgroundText of Serbian Information Law Back to CHOKEHOLD main page

Click here to read more about press freedom conditions in LIBERIA Click here to read CPJ’s protest letter to Liberian president Charles G. Taylor

Click here to read more about press freedom conditions in YUGOSLAVIA New York, August 17, 2000 — Serbian journalist Miroslav Filipovic was transferred from a military prison in Nis, where he is serving a seven-year sentence for espionage, to the city’s military hospital on Tuesday. He was admitted to the hospital with significant arrhythmia of…

Your Excellency: On the occasion of the 40th anniversary of your country’s proclamation of independence, the Committee to Protect Journalists writes to express its grave concern about the recent deterioration of press freedom standards in the Central African Republic.