Your Excellency: The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is deeply concerned about press-freedom violations in Paraguay since the August 13 vice-presidential elections. In the tense climate that followed the elections, several Paraguayan journalists have been attacked and threatened, according to CPJ sources and local press reports.
Your Excellency: The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is deeply concerned about press-freedom violations in Paraguay since the August 13 vice-presidential elections. In the tense climate that followed the elections, several Paraguayan journalists have been attacked and threatened, according to CPJ sources and local press reports.
Your Excellency: The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is deeply disturbed by the illegal arrests of Rauf Arifoglu and Etibar Djebrayiloglu, respectively editor-in-chief and special correspondent of the opposition daily Yeni Musavat, and by the illegal banning of the independent newspaper Uch Noqte. We fear that these and other incidents constitute an organized government campaign to stifle independent journalism in Azerbaijan during the run-up to the November 5 parliamentary elections.
Your Excellency: The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is alarmed by the harsh treatment to which three journalists from the Bishkek independent weekly Delo N were recently subjected by agents of the Ministry of National Security. After a long and brutal interrogation on August 16, one of the journalists was hospitalized with a heart condition, according to CPJ sources.
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 New York, August 22, 2000 — A four-man television news crew from Britain’s Channel Four, in Liberian police custody since last Friday, was indicted yesterday, August 21, on espionage charges. Liberian…
Your Excellency: The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is outraged by your government’s detention of a four-member news team from Britain’s Channel Four television network, who were arrested by police at their hotel in Monrovia late Friday night, August 18, and have reportedly been charged with espionage.