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Tajikistan
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| Afghanistan, Benin, Central Asia, China, Egypt, Indonesia, Iran, Jordan, Lebanon, Liberia, Oman, Pakistan, Syria, Tajikistan, UK, Uzbekistan, Yemen
Faced with a mounting toll of Russian
journalists' abductions, the new Chechen government has heavily
restricted reporters' movements. The May kidnapping of independent
Russian NTV's prominent war reporter Yelena Masyuk and two crew members
was the latest in a string of kidnappings, possibly related to the
intention of some Chechen factions to derail the 1996 peace settlement
with the Russian Federation. In March, the Chechen Interior Ministry
announced that all journalists must register with the ministry, travel
to the republic only by air, stay in the government compound at the
airport, and accept armed government bodyguards--for which they must
pay. As of May 12, CPJ had documented at least 14 media employees
missing in Chechnya--more than anywhere else in the world. Those
abducted in 1997 and still held are believed to be alive; seven who
disappeared in 1995 and 1996 are feared dead.
Dangerous Assignments
| Algeria, China, Cuba, Indonesia, Kenya, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, Slovakia, Tajikistan, Turkey
NEW YORK --The leaders of China, Nigeria, and Turkey are among 10 world figures identified by the U.S. based Committee to Protect Journalists as "Enemies of the Press." All are responsible for brutal campaigns against journalists and press freedom, as documented by CPJ in its ongoing monitoring of press freedom violations worldwide. The Enemies of the Press list is released annually on May 3, World Press Freedom Day.
Dangerous Assignments
| Algeria, Bosnia, Burma, China, Colombia, Cuba, Ethiopia, Kuwait, Nigeria, Peru, Philippines, Rwanda, Somalia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Vietnam, Yugoslavia
CPJ's 1995 report surveys 101 countries
The bullet-ridden wall pictured on the cover is a detail from a photograph taken in Somalia by American photojournalist Dan Eldon of Reuters. Eldon, Associated Press photojournalist Hansi Krauss, and Reuter colleagues Hosea Maina and Anthony Macharia were murdered in July 1993 by a Somali crowd angered by the death of 50 countrymen in an air raid on Gen. Mohamed Farah Aidid's command post. Reuters/Dan Eldon
Dangerous Assignments
| Colombia, Croatia, Ghana, India, Mexico, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Tajikistan, Turkey
Dangerous Assignments
| Algeria, Argentina, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Bosnia, Brazil, Burundi, Cambodia, Chad, Chile, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Egypt, Ethiopia, Gambia, Guatemala, Indonesia, Iraq, Kenya, Kuwait, Libya, Mexico, Nigeria, Pakistan, Paraguay, Peru, Qatar, Russia, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Sierra Leone, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Syria, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Zambia, Zimbabwe
- For the third consecutive year, Ethiopia held more journalists in jail--31 at year's end--than any other country in Africa. Most were detained without charges.
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