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SLORC on the Enemy List of Journali
- Subject: SLORC on the Enemy List of Journali
- From: moe@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 05 May 1997 21:23:00
Subject: SLORC on the Enemy List of Journalists
Committee to Protect Journalists names 10 'enemies'
11:07 a.m. May 03, 1997 Eastern
NEW YORK, May 3 (Reuter) - The Committee to Protect Journalists on Saturday
released a list of
10 people it has singled out as ``1997 enemies of the press,'' including the
heads of state of Albania,
Burma, China, Cuba and Nigeria.
William A. Orme, Jr., CPJ's executive director, said in a statement that the
10 had ``deliberately
engaged in hundreds of press freedom violations ranging from censorship,
harassment and physical
attack to imprisonment and even assassination.''
The list is as follows: Algeria's Antar Zouabri, head of the militant Armed
Islamic Group; China's
President Jiang Zemin; Cuban President Fidel Castro; Nigeria's leader,
General Sani Abacha;
Turkish Prime Minister Neemettin Erbakan; Belarus President Alexander
Lukashenko; Ethiopian
Prime Minister Meles Zenawi; Indonesian President Suharto; Burma's Senior
General Than Shwe,
and; Albanian President Sali Berisha.
``These 10 individuals are characterised by their relentless hostility to
the very concept of a free and
independent press in their own countries and around the world,'' said Orme.
The New York-based CPJ is an independent non-profit organisation that
documents violations of
press freedom. ^REUTER@