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JANUARY 24, 2006 Posted: February 1, 2006 Mais Abu Ghazaleh, Palestine News Network HARASSED Abu Ghazaleh, 23, was summoned and questioned extensively by Israeli intelligence regarding her work for the Palestine News Network, according to the journalist and the network’s director, Fadi Abu Sada

JANUARY 17, 2006 Posted February 1, 2006 Concepción Rodríguez Parra, Radio Lobo ATTACKED Rodríguez, who works for “En la mira,” a weekly program on Radio Lobo that criticizes local authorities, was attacked by unidentified assailants in the southern state of Veracruz.

 UPDATE:  JANUARY 31, 2006 Original Alert: January 18, 2006 Mom Sonando, Sambok Khmum (Beehive Radio) Kem Sokha, Cambodian Center for Human Rights Pa Guon Tieng, Cambodia Center for Human Rights

JANUARY 19, 2006 Posted January 31, 2006 Bill Dunphy, The Hamilton Spectator LEGAL ACTION Police asked a judge to order Dunphy, a senior reporter for the Hamilton, Ontario, daily, to turn over all records of his interviews with a convicted criminal. Police are investigating a 1998 murder of a local lawyer and her husband. They…

JANUARY 24, 2006 Posted January 30, 2006 Nagham Abdul-Zahra, Al-Jawra’a ATTACKED Abdul-Zahra, a TV presenter working for Iraqi TV channel al-Jawra’a, jumped off her second-floor balcony to escape a kidnapping in southeastern Baghdad.

JANUARY 27, 2006 Aleksandr Sveshnikov, Bogatei THREATENED Yuri Smirnov, TVTs-Saratov ATTACKED Sveshnikov, deputy editor of the newspaper Bogatei, was threatened and Smirnov, cameraman with the television station TVTs-Saratov, was assaulted. The incidents came as the journalists tried to cover the government’s seizure of a building hosting the institute Saratovpromproekt in the Volga region city of…

January 19, 2006 Original alert: December 23, 2005 Klem Ofuokwu, Rhythm 93.7 FM Cleopatra Taiwo, Rhythm 93.7 FM IMPRISONED, LEGAL ACTION On January 3, two radio journalists were released from prison after paying bail in the southern city of Port Harcourt. Ofuokwu and Taiwo, both of whom work for the private radio station Rhythm 93.7…

JANUARY 19, 2006 Posted January 31, 2006 Bill Dunphy, The Hamilton Spectator LEGAL ACTION Police asked a judge to order Dunphy, a senior reporter for the Hamilton, Ontario, daily, to turn over all records of his interviews with a convicted criminal. Police are investigating a 1998 murder of a local lawyer and her husband. They…

JANUARY 17, 2006 Posted February 1, 2006 Concepción Rodríguez Parra, Radio Lobo ATTACKED Rodríguez, who works for “En la mira,” a weekly program on Radio Lobo that criticizes local authorities, was attacked by unidentified assailants in the southern state of Veracruz.

JANUARY 15, 2006 Posted: March 8, 2006 Bonaventure Bizumuremyi, Umuco ATTACKED Four unidentified intruders carrying clubs and knives came to the Kigali home of Bizumuremyi, editor of one of Rwanda’s few independent newspapers, Umuco. CPJ sources said the intruders broke the door, awakening neighbors who intervened before the intruders could get inside. Bizumuremyi, who had…