Five journalists get CPJ awards

Thu, 26 Nov 1998, 00:00 WIB | Source: AFP

NEW YORK (AFP): Journalists from Belarus, Eritrea, Indonesia,
Niger, Panama were lauded late on Tuesday by the Committee for
the Protection of Journalists (CPJ) for covering the news in
difficult and dangerous conditions.

The 1998 International Press Freedom awards went to Gustavo
Gorriti, a Peruvian currently working in Panama, AFP
correspondent Ruth Simon in Eritrea, Gremah Boucar of Niger,
Indonesian editor Goenawan Mohamad and Belarus journalist Pavel
Sheremet.

Boucar is the founder of Niger's leading private radio station
Radio Anfani and publisher of a newspaper and magazine of the
same name. He had his office computers smashed, and has been
arrested and threatened.

In accepting his award, Gorriti said: "Throughout Latin
America, many other journalists have taken the same decision, and
together, sometimes without realizing it, we were not just
reporting but making history." Simon, Sheremet and Goenawan were
unable to attend the awards ceremony.

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