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Something bad happens to a journalist

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.

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Media targeted since vice-presidential election

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.

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Channel Four Journalists Freed

Click here to read more about press freedom conditions in LIBERIA Previous CPJ coverage:

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Media on strike to protest government crackdown

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.

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Journalist Appears in Court

Click here to read more about press freedom conditions in TURKEY Click here to read an except from Mehmed’s Book Clich here to read Mater’s statement

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Journalist hospitalized after police interrogation

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.

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Alleges “Crime against me and the people of Liberia”

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

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Prosecutor Charges Channel 4 Team with Espionage

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…

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Editor murdered in Manipur

Your Excellency: The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is alarmed by the murder of Thounaojam Brajamani Singh, editor of the English-language daily Manipur News, who was killed yesterday in Manipur State.

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CPJ urges government to release British news team

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.

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