Dear Mr. Mirzorian, The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is greatly disturbed by the arrest and continued detention of Vahram Aghajanian, a journalist with the newspaper Tasnerord Nahang in the territory of Nagorno-Karabakh, and a contributor to the Yerevan, Armenia-based paper Iravunk.
Your Excellency, The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is writing to protest the outrageous fine of 290,000 soles (US$84,000) that the National Elections Board recently imposed on the television station Canal N after it inadvertently broadcast results of the most recent election polls. Article 191 of Peru’s Organic Law of Elections prohibits the publication of poll results less than 15 days before the election.
Click here to read more about press freedom conditions in IRAN New York, August 7, 2000 — A bill to reform Iran’s harsh press laws was quashed on Sunday by the country’s supreme religious leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. The next day, a liberal opposition journalist was arrested, according to wire service reports.
Click here to read more about press freedom conditions in SRI LANKA. New York, April 7, 2000 — CPJ condemns the April 6 assault on Elmo Fernando, correspondent for the BBC’s Sinhala-language service. Fernando was attacked in front of the Norwegian embassy in the capital city of Colombo by a group of demonstrators protesting Norway’s…
New York, August 7, 2000 –To protest the repression of writers in Serbia, Homero Aridjis, the President of International PEN, is refusing the “Smederevo Golden Key” literary prize at the Smederevo Fall Poetry Festival (Belgrade, October 2000). Mr. Aridjis, internationally acclaimed Mexican poet and a columnist for the daily Reforma, was invited to come to…
Click here to read more about press freedom conditions in COLOMBIA New York, July 11, 2000 — On June 20, guerrillas from the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, the armed movement known by its Colombian acronym FARC, confiscated and burned copies of the Bogotá-based daily El Tiempo.
Your Excellency: The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is deeply concerned about recent press freedom violations in The Gambia, including the prosecution of one journalist on murder charges. Based on our investigation into the abuses related in this letter, we have come to the unfortunate conclusion that these attacks against journalists are not isolated incidents, but part of a systematic campaign to suppress reporting on issues of legitimate public concern.
Click here to read more about press freedom conditions in the PHILIPPINES New York, July 10, 2000—The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is gravely concerned over the apparent kidnapping July 9 of three French journalists by members of the Abu Sayyaf rebel group in the Philippines. Reporter Maryse Burgot and cameramen Jean-Jacques Le Garrec and…