This index has been discontinued. Please go to the News Archive Index for 2000.

THAILAND: PUBLISHER SHOT IN CHIANG MAI
Posted April 20, 2000   [Read CPJ's protest letter]

INDIA: EDITOR, WRITER JAILED FOR "EXCITING DISAFFECTION"
Posted April 20, 2000   [Read CPJ's protest letter]

MOROCCO: STATE CRACKS DOWN ON WESTERN SAHARA COVERAGE
Posted April 19, 2000   [Read CPJ's protest letter]

BURKINA FASO: RADIO STATION BANNED FOR CRITICIZING GOVERNMENT INACTION IN ZONGO CASE
Posted April 18, 2000   [Read CPJ's protest letter]

COLOMBIA: SUSPICIOUS BREAK-IN AT MAGAZINE OFFICES
Posted April 17, 2000   [Read CPJ's protest letter]

IRAN: LEADING EDITOR JAILED
Posted April 14, 2000   [Read CPJ's protest letter]

CÔTE D'IVOIRE: SOLDIERS KIDNAP, TORTURE JOURNALIST
Posted April 14, 2000   [Read CPJ's protest letter]

NIGERIA: STATE CRACKS DOWN ON INDEPENDENT PRESS
Posted April 14, 2000   [Read CPJ's protest letter]

CHINA: OFFICIAL WARNS HONG KONG MEDIA ON TAIWAN COVERAGE
Posted April 14, 2000   [Read CPJ's protest letter]

UKRAINE: JOURNALIST ASSAULTED BY PUBLIC OFFICIAL
Posted April 12, 2000   [Read CPJ's protest letter]

SLOVAKIA: JOURNALIST SENTENCED FOR DEFAMING HIS COUNTRY
Posted April 12, 2000   [Read CPJ's protest letter]

PERU: TV STATION FINED ON EVE OF PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
Posted April 7, 2000   [Read CPJ's protest letter]

NAGORNO-KARABAKH: OPPOSITION JOURNALIST ARRESTED
Posted April 7, 2000   [Read CPJ's protest letter]

CAMBODIA: INDEPENDENT WEEKLY SUSPENDED FOR THIRTY DAYS
Posted April 7, 2000   [Read CPJ's protest letter]

LAOS: AUSTRALIAN TV CREW CENSORED
Posted April 7, 2000   [Read CPJ's protest letter]

PHILIPPINES: RADIO HOST SURVIVES ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT
Posted April 5, 2000   [Read CPJ's letter]

ANGOLA: CPJ PROTESTS MARQUES TRIAL CONVICTIONS
Posted April 5, 2000   [Read CPJ's protest letter]

Haiti:  Prominent radio journalist gunned down
(Posted April 3, 2000)

Uganda:  Two radio journalists prosecuted for broadcasting erroneous massacre report
(Posted April 3, 2000)

Malaysia:  Government bans independent magazine
(Posted March 29, 2000)

United States:   CPJ urges probe of NYC police attack on reporter Errol Maitland
(Posted March 28, 2000)

Côte d'Ivoire:   Despite promises to respect press freedom, military regime cracks down on local media
(Posted March 28, 2000)

Belarus:   35 journalists detained during opposition protest
(Posted March 27, 2000)


Kyrgyzstan:   Journalist arrested, newspaper subjected to legal harassment
(Posted March 23, 2000)

Liberia:   Two private radio stations shut down
(Posted March 17, 2000)
DRC:   Editor who reported coup conspiracy faces death
(Posted March 13, 2000)
Angola:   Outspoken journalist will be tried
(Posted March 6, 2000)
Malaysia:   Opposition party newspaper harassed
(Posted March 3, 2000)
Russia:   Security forces tortured Babitsky
(Posted March 2, 2000)
Nepal:   Authorities conspire to keep leftist editor in jail
(Posted March 1, 2000)
Georgia:  Private radio station forced to sell out
(Posted March 1, 2000)
Pakistan:   Deposed prime minister censored during trial
(Posted February 29, 2000)
Swaziland:   Media group closed for not revealing sources
(Posted February 26, 2000)
Angola:   Journalist jailed for unpublished article
(Posted February 26, 2000)
Yemen:   Editor banned for life
(Posted February 25, 2000)
Kenya:   Journalist jailed for offending presidential guards
(Posted February 25, 2000)
India:   Time magazine issue censored
(Posted February 25, 2000)
Peru: Independent radio station silenced
[Versión en español] (Posted February 23, 2000)
Azerbaijan:   Harassment of independent media turns violent (Posted February 18, 2000)
Indonesia: Police harass TV crew in West Timor   (Posted February 7, 2000)
Ghana: Editor threatened with sedition charges   (Posted February 7, 2000)
Russia: Journalist held by Russian troops in Chechnya   (Posted February 2, 2000)
DRC: Systematic repression of media documented   (Posted January 20, 2000)
Angola: One of Africa's worse press freedom offenders   (Posted January 13, 2000)
Malaysia: Editor and publisher arrested   (Posted January 13, 2000)
Uzbekistan: Jailed reporter's health worsens   (Posted January 12, 2000)
Malaysia: Government threatens to close down five independent newspapers   (Posted January 10, 2000)
Sri Lanka: Reporter murdered outside church  (Posted January 6, 2000)
Hungary: Newspaper bombed after winning libel suit  (Posted January 5, 2000)