Alerts

Nova York, 13 de setembro de 2002 --- O Comitê de Proteção aos Jornalistas vê com preocupacão a situação do jornalista Lúcio Flávio Pinto, que responde a diversas ações criminais por suas reportagens sobre o Estado do Pará.

Lúcio Flávio é um respeitado jornalista independente de Belém do Pará. Ele escreve a coluna "Carta da Amazônia" para o jornal O Estado de S. Paulo e publicou e editou durante mais de 14 anos o pequeno jornal quinzenal Jornal Pessoal, que cerrou suas portas em julho.

New York, September 13, 2002—The Committee to Protect Journalists is concerned about Brazilian journalist Lúcio Flávio Pinto, who faces several criminal and civil lawsuits because of his reporting from the Amazon rain forest in Brazil's northern state of Pará.

Lúcio Flávio, as he is known in Brazil, is a well-respected free-lance reporter based in Belém, the capital of Pará. He writes the column "Carta da Amazônia" (Letter from the Amazon) for the São Paulo­based daily O Estado de S. Paulo and was the publisher and editor for more than 14 years of the small, Belém-based fortnightly Jornal Pessoal, which ceased publication this July.

New York, September 13, 2002—Two years after the disappearance of Ukrainian journalist Georgy Gongadze, the Committee to Protect Journalists is dismayed by the lack of progress in the government's inquiry into this case.

"President Leonid Kuchma's government continues to obstruct the official inquiry," said CPJ executive director Ann Cooper. "Journalists in Ukraine will not feel safe until the government's role in Gongadze's disappearance is fully clarified, and those responsible for his abduction and death are behind bars."

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Reconstruction and Development of Media in Afghanistan
The Ministry of Information and Culture Policy Directions
Kabul
6th June 2002

Our plan for the reconstruction and development of Afghanistan's media is rooted in the vision of a social and political future that our people deserve and aspire to, and has been promised by our government - a free, independent and united Afghanistan, where government is the servant of the people and accountable to them; where there is peace, justice and the rule of law; and where people can build a modern society in accordance with the principles of Islam, democracy and human rights.

New York, September 11, 2002—The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is concerned that Iosif Costinas, a 62 year-old reporter for the Romanian independent daily Timisoara, has been missing since early June.

Costinas' journalism focused on highly sensitive political issues, including a number of unsolved murders that occurred during the 1989 anti-communist revolt, which began in the western city of Timisoara, as well as the continued presence of communist-era secret police agents in the government.

New York, September 9, 2002—The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) mourns the death of our colleague Larry Greene, a 24-year veteran cameraman for the Los Angeles­based television station KCBS.

Greene died Friday, September 6, when a Navy helicopter crashed over the Persian Gulf. According to several news reports, the helicopter, which carried Greene and four sailors, "had been hovering over a Syrian-flagged vessel" observing a routine health inspection and "crashed when the rotor blade struck the ship's mast," said Brig. Gen. John Rosa, the deputy operations director for the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

New York, September 18, 2002—The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) condemns yesterday's attack on Ghulam Mohammad Sofi, a prominent editor in Srinagar, the summer capital of India's Jammu and Kashmir State.

Two young men entered the offices of Sofi, editor of the popular Urdu-language daily Srinagar Times, at about 6:30 p.m. yesterday and opened fire. Sofi's bodyguard attempted to block the assailant and was shot in the thighs. The editor was hospitalized for a bullet injury to his right hand and is now recuperating at home.

New York, September 6, 2002—The Interior Ministry of Macedonia announced today that it is filing criminal libel charges against Marjan Djurovski, a journalist with the weekly magazine Start, which is based in the Macedonian capital, Skopje. The ministry also stated that additional steps would be taken against other local journalists.

According to the Interior Ministry, the charges were in response to an article by Djurovski in today's issue of Start (www.start.com.mk) claiming that the government was prepared to start a war to delay the September 15 parliamentary elections.

New York, September 5, 2002--The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) confirmed today the detention of Web publisher and AIDS activist Wan Yanhai. Wan had been missing since August 24.

Public security agents informed Wan's colleagues in Beijing that they are holding him on suspicion of "leaking state secrets," according to Wan's wife, Su Zhaosheng, who is currently studying in Los Angeles. He has not been formally charged, and authorities have not informed Wan's friends or family where he is being held.

New York, September 5, 2002—Lebanese security officers yesterday raided the private Lebanese television station Murr TV (MTV) and Mount Lebanon Radio Station, roughed up employees, and forcibly shut down the stations.

One MTV employee told the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) that the Internal Security Forces did not present a judicial order and that they were verbally abusive—pushing staff around as they raided the building and ordering all employees to leave immediately.