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Reporter abducted, beaten in Islamabad

March 29, 2001 12:00 PM EST

Your Excellency: The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is greatly alarmed by the brutal abduction and beating of Shakil Shaikh, chief reporter for the national English-language daily The News.

Government shuts two independent papers

March 20, 2001 12:00 PM EST

Your Excellency, The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is deeply disturbed by your government’s recent crackdown on independent and opposition media in Kyrgyzstan, exemplified by the recent closure of the opposition twice-weekly newspaper Asaba and the suspension of the independent weekly Res Publica.

Journalists at risk in Israel and the Occupied Territories

March 13, 2001 12:00 PM EST

Your Excellency: The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is writing to you on the occasion of the formation of your new government to express concern about the safety of journalists working in Israel and the occupied territories.

Leftist editor disappears

March 12, 2001 12:00 PM EST

Your Excellency: The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is gravely concerned over the disappearance of Krishna Sen, editor of the Nepali-language weekly Janadesh. Though authorities claim Sen was released from Rajbiraj Jail on the night of March 10, following a March 8 Supreme Court ruling that his detention violated Nepal’s habeas corpus protections, local journalists and human rights advocates have reported him missing.

Editor jailed for defaming President Obasanjo

February 12, 2001 12:00 AM EST

Your Excellency: The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is greatly disturbed by the recent arrest and continuing prosecution of Nnamdi Onyenua, editor of the weekly, Lagos-based magazine Glamour Trends, on charges of criminal defamation.

Pakistan: Journalists arrested for blasphemy

January 31, 2001 12:00 PM EST

Your Excellency: The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is deeply dismayed by the recent arrests of at least a dozen employees of the English-language newspaper The Frontier Post and its sister publication, the Urdu-language daily Maidan. District officials in Peshawar, where both newspapers are published, ordered the arrests and sealed The Frontier Post’s printing press without having conducted any investigation into allegations of blasphemy against the daily.

Indonesia: Foreign Minister seeks to limit journalists’ access to trouble spots

January 30, 2001 12:00 PM EST

Your Excellency: The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is alarmed by a proposal announced last week by Indonesian Foreign Minister Alwi Shihab that could severely restrict foreign journalists from traveling to a number of crisis-prone regions in Indonesia.

CPJ Delegation Criticizes Angola on Press Freedom: Urges government to “reconsider” draft press law

October 4, 2000 12:00 PM EDT

Click here to read more about press freedom conditions in ANGOLA Bill Threatens Press Freedom in Angola, (Sept. 13) Luanda, October 4, 2000 — In response to an increase in repressive measures against the Angolan media over the past two years, a six-member delegation of the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) today completed…

As hostage crisis drags on, release of three French journalists delayed

August 17, 2000 12:00 PM EDT

Click here to read more about press freedom conditions in the PHILIPPINES Previous CPJ coverage of the hostage crisis in Jolo:

Two journalists killed by gunmen; two others wounded

May 25, 2000 12:00 PM EDT

Click here to read more about press freedom conditions in SIERRA LEONE New York, May 24, 2000 — The Committee to Protect Journalists is outraged by the latest murderous attack on journalists in Sierra Leone, which claimed the lives of two western journalists and left two others injured on Wednesday, according to news agencies and…