Introduction
Najam Sethi, founding editor of The Friday Times, was prevented from flying to London on June 23 to accept Amnesty International’s award for “Journalists Under Threat.” Though the government has dropped all sedition-related charges against him, Sethi’s name still appears on the government’s Exit Control List, his passport has been seized by Pakistan’s Intelligence Bureau,…
News on Yugoslavia
1999 17-June-99 CPJ update: Correspondents Shot in Kosovo; Yugoslav Army Harassment Continues in Montenegro; While Exiled Daily Distributes in Pristina. British journalists injured in Kosovo attack 14-June-99 CPJ Update:German Journalists Killed in Kosovo 09-June-99 CPJ Update: Two Journalists Escape, While One Faces Trial in Yugoslavia 12-May-99 CPJ Update: Journalists Caught in the Crossfire 27-April-99 CPJ Update: Milosevic regime tightens…
Tunisia:A CPJ Briefing
During little more than a decade in power, President Zine Abdine Ben Ali has reduced Tunisia’s once-respectable press to one of the most restricted in the Arab world. On World Press Freedom Day, May 3, CPJ named Ben Ali as one of the world’s 10 worst Enemies of the Press. Tunisian journalists continue to operate…
Tunisia:A Decade of Stifling the Press
On May 3, 1999, World Press Freedom Day, the Committee to Protect Journalists, for the second consecutive year, named Tunisian President Zine Abdine Ben Ali as one of the world’s top 10 Enemies of the Press. Since ousting strongman Habib Bourguiba from power in 1987, Ben Ali has helped to transform Tunisia’s press into one…
Enemies of the Press: The 10 Worst Offenders of 1998
On May 3, in conjunction with World Press Freedom Day, CPJ announced its annual identification of the top 10 Enemies of the Press worldwide. Those who made the list this year, as in the past, earned the dubious distinction by exhibiting particular zeal for the ruthless suppression of journalists. Gen. Sani Abacha of Nigeria was…
Egypt Attacks on the Press
1999 February 7, 1999 Abbas al-Tarabili, Al-Wafd, LEGAL ACTION Muhammad Abdel Alim, Al-Wafd, LEGAL ACTION Between February 7 and February 8, al-Tarabili, co-editor in chief of the opposition daily Al-Wafd, and Abdel Alim, a reporter for the paper, were questioned by state security prosecutors on charges of “publishing false information to harm public interests, inciting public opinion,…
Tunisia: Attacks of the Press 1992-1999
1999 April 28, 1999 Taoufik Ben Brik, La Croix HARASSED Ben Brik, a correspondent for the Paris-based daily La Croix, was prevented by Tunisian authorities from leaving the country for a planned trip to Switzerland after police at Tunis-Carthage Airport confiscated his passport, claiming that the document was missing a page and therefore Ben Brik could…