[66894] in Cypherpunks
Algeria & Censorship
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (E. Allen Smith)
Mon Sep 30 16:20:32 1996
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 15:57 EDT
From: "E. Allen Smith" <EALLENSMITH@ocelot.Rutgers.EDU>
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While I agree with the Algerian military in preventing an Islamic
Fundamentalist takeover (it's one of my examples of situations in which
democracy goes wrong), I definitely don't support many of their other
actions. Lesser of two evils...
-Allen
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> PARIS (Sep 30, 1996 1:24 p.m. EDT) - A press freedom watchdog on
> Monday offered the suspended Algerian daily La Tribune a page on its
> Internet site to give it an airing during the six-month ban.
> "Thanks to this initiative, these journalists, banned from writing by
> the Algerian authorities, will be able to practice their trade again,"
> the Paris-based Reporters without Borders (RsF) said.
> An Algiers court suspended La Tribune for six months on September 3
> over a cartoon mocking the Algerian flag.
[...]
> Fifty-seven journalists have been murdered by suspected rebels. RsF
> said authorities had suspended or seized newspapers on 55 occasions
> and 23 journalists had been held for more than 48 hours since the
> conflict broke out over the 1992 cancellation of a general election
> fundamentalists were poised to win.
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