Alerts - 2003
(CPJ/IFEX) - The following is a 27 June 2003 open letter from CPJ to Indonesian President Megawati Sukarnoputri:
(RSF/IFEX) - RSF has urged Bahraini authorities to call off the trial of the editor of "Al-Wasat", the kingdom's leading independent daily, and one of its reporters. The journalists face six months in prison and/or a fine of 1,000 dinars (approx. $US2,650; 2,300 euros) for reporting in March 2003 that three suspected terrorists had been released on bail.
(CPJ/IFEX) - The following is a CPJ press release:
(RSF/IFEX) - RSF has voiced deep concern about a 27 June 2003 Molotov cocktail attack on the car of opposition journalist Marta Colomina of Televén television.
(WPFC/IFEX) - The following is a 27 June 2003 press release by the Coordinating Committee of Press Freedom Organizations, of which WPFC is a member:
(FLIP/IFEX) - On 21 June 2003, journalist Yesenia Ayala and camera operator Guillermo Gómez, of the Enlace Diez Televisión station, in the eastern port city of Barrancabermeja, were physically and verbally assaulted during a demonstration by the Unión Sindical Obrera (USO) labour union.
(RSF/IFEX) - RSF has protested the 28 June 2003 expulsion of Pavel Selin, the Minsk correspondent for the Russian television station NTV, due to an allegedly "biased" report on the funeral of a writer opposed to President Alexander Lukashenko. The Belarusian foreign ministry withdrew Selin's accreditation, banned him from entering the country for five years and threatened to close NTV's Minsk bureau if the station does not broadcast an apology.
(CPJ/IFEX) - The following is a CPJ press release:
(IPI/IFEX) - The following is a 27 June 2003 letter to Prime Minister Ivica Racan and President Zlatko Tomcic by the South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), an IPI affiliate:
(RSF/IFEX) - RSF has voiced concern about a 27 June 2003 decree reinforcing restrictions on foreign journalists in the province of Aceh and the recent arrests of a Japanese photographer and an American reporter for trying to independently cover the army's offensive against the rebel Free Aceh Movement (GAM).
(EOHR/IFEX) - The following is a 25 June 2003 EOHR press release:
(CPJ/IFEX) - The following is a 26 June 2003 CPJ letter to the special prosecutor for crimes against journalists and trade unionists, Marco Antonio Cortez:
(IPI/IFEX) - The following is an IPI letter to Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma:
(CPJ/IFEX) - The following is a 26 June 2003 CPJ press release:
(MISA/IFEX) - On 26 June 2003, "The Daily News" editor Nqobile Nyathi was arrested and charged under the Public Order and Security Act (POSA) for allegedly publishing advertisements insulting the president. Nyathi confirmed that she had been summoned to Harare Central Police Station. "I was summoned to the public order and security section at the Central Police Station," said Nyathi. "I was charged under POSA and they were referring to advertisements that appeared from the 16th to the 19th of May. I was made to sign a warned and cautioned statement and they said they are still investigating the case," she said.
(MISA/IFEX) - The following is a 25 June 2003 submission by MISA's South Africa chapter on the South African Broadcasting Corporation's Draft Editorial Policy:
(RSF/IFEX) - RSF has urged the authorities to explain why they are holding four journalists who were originally detained under an anti-terrorism law, but reportedly will now be prosecuted under the press law and face prison terms.
(ARTICLE 19/IFEX) - The following is an ARTICLE 19 press release:
(MISA/IFEX) - The following is a joint MISA-MFWA alert:
(IAPA/IFEX) - The following is a 20 June 2003 IAPA press release:
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