CJFE Solicits Applications for Journalist at Risk Fellowship
Canadian Journalists for Free Expression is seeking applications from foreign journalists for the Donner/CJFE Journalist at Risk Fellowship.
The Fellowship aims to provide a deserving foreign journalist with a mid-career sabbatical in which s/he can spend an academic year at Massey College in Toronto auditing courses of his or her choice, expanding contacts with Canadian colleagues and acquiring new journalistic skills that can be put to use upon return to his or her country.
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CJFE Takes Memberships and Donations Online
Supporters of Canadian Journalists for Free Expression (CJFE) can now give online using the services of Charity.ca, Canada's first charity portal.
Visitors to the CJFE Web site at www.cjfe.org can join the organization and make a donation quickly, easily and safely. By simply clicking on the "Join CJFE" icon, you will be taken to a page that allows for secure transactions.
"CJFE has teamed up with charity.ca in order to allow Canadians interested in our work to support us financially through a safe and easy-to-use Internet option," said CJFE Program Co-ordinator David Cozac.
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CJFE Welcomes Canada's Efforts to Find Truth in Kazakhstan
Canadian Journalists for Free Expression (CJFE) welcomes news that two Ontario coroners have arrived in the Kazakhstani capital of Almaty to investigate circumstances surrounding the death of Leila Bayseitova.
"We are gratified that Foreign Affairs Minister Bill Graham made good on his commitment to push for the truth in this case," CJFE Executive Director Joel Ruimy said.
"And we call on Kazakhstani authorities to extend full co-operation to the two Ontario experts now investigating the case."
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CJFE Welcomes Court Ruling on National Post, RCMP
Canadian Journalists for Free Expression (CJFE) welcomes a court ruling allowing the CBC and The Globe and Mail to join a legal challenge of a search warrant and assistance order granted against the National Post.
"The ruling comes as a heartening development in the fight for press freedoms," CJFE Executive Director Joel Ruimy said. "We strongly support the National Post in its efforts to defend a journalist's right to communicate with confidential sources.
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Colombian Journalist Murdered; Country's 8th So Far This Year
Canadian Journalists for Free Expression is outraged by the murder of a colleague in Colombia, the eighth killing of a journalist in that country since the beginning of the year.
Efrain Alberto Varela Noriega, owner of Radio Meridiano-70 and host of two political programs on that station, was shot dead in front of two of his relatives after his car was stopped on a rural road in the northeastern Colombian department of Arauca.
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CJFE Event on Dec. 17th: Free Expression in Burma Today and Tomorrow
Free Expression in Burma Today and Tomorrow
Human Rights Event
17 December 2002
Presented by Canadian Journalists for Free Expression
In cooperation
with the Burma Media Association (Canada)
# Win Khet, exiled Burmese Editor and Central Committee member of the National League for Democracy
# Tin Maung Than, exiled Burmese Editor and radio journalist
# Brian John, Myanmar Coordinator for Amnesty International Canada (English-speaking Branch)
Speakers will be followed by a question and answer period, and tea and coffee will be served.
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CJFE Gala Puts Free Expression on Centre Stage
Lira Bayseitova of Kazakhstan, and the three co-founders of the Somali radio and television network HornAfrik Media Inc. were honoured November 13 for their work in upholding freedom of the press under challenging conditions at the fifth annual Canadian Journalists for Free Expression International Press Freedom Awards Dinner, the signature event of the year for Canada's journalistic community and its supporters.
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International Reaction to Firing of Mills
The decision by CanWest Global Communications Corp. to dismiss Russell Mills from the post of publisher of the Ottawa Citizen has sent shockwaves through the international journalistic community.
What follows is the verbatim text of a statement released today by the Vienna-based International Press Institute, which says Canada's "outstanding reputation for freedom of the press has been badly damaged" by the firing.
We offer it for the information of CJFE members and others interested in the promotion and defence of freedom of expression and a free press.
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Iran's Judiciary Seeks to Muzzle Entire Country
Canadian Journalists for Free Expression (CJFE) notes with dismay that in ordering the arrest of a pollster, the judiciary in Iran seeks to muzzle the free-expression rights of all its citizens.
"This is unprecedented attack on free expression," CJFE Executive Director Joel Ruimy said. "It also represents another chapter in the sorry history of shooting the messenger."
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Israeli Army Fire Kills Palestinian Freelancer
July 16 - Canadian Journalists for Free Expression (CJFE) mourns the loss of a colleague to Israeli army fire, the second such killing in five months, and calls on the Government of Israel to launch a full inquiry into the incident.
According to CJFE information, Palestinian freelance photographer Imad Abu Zahra travelled to the centre of Jenin on July 11 to take pictures of an Israel Defence Forces (IDF) armored personnel carrier that had slammed into a utility pole.
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