OCTOBER 26, 2005 Posted: December 2, 2005 BBC Deutsche Welle The Associated Press Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty HARASSED The BBC World Service closed its Tashkent office and withdrew staff because of continued harassment by authorities because of its reporting on the May 13 massacre in the northeast city of Andijan. Other local and foreign media…
OCTOBER 24, 2005 Posted: December 8, 2005 African Independent Television RayPower FM CENSORED Nigerian authorities ordered the country’s leading independent broadcast network off the air, in part because the network’s reports on the October 22 Bellview Airlines crash included details that had not been officially released. Daar Communications group’s African Independent Television (AIT) and its…
OCTOBER 19, 2005 Posted October 21, 2005 Mohammed Haroon, Al-Kadiya KILLED—UNCONFIRMED Unidentified gunmen killed Haroon, a controversial journalist, as he was driving in Baghdad. Haroon, 47, publisher of the weekly newspaper Al-Kadiya (The Cause) who also served as secretary-general of the Iraqi Journalists Syndicate,, was shot four times, according to CPJ sources.
OCTOBER 19, 2005 Posted October 21, 2005 Rory Carroll, Guardian ABDUCTED Carroll, Baghdad correspondent for London’s Guardian newspaper, was released unharmed after a day in captivity, the publication said. The Guardian said a group of armed men seized Carroll as he left a house in Sadr City, a stronghold of radical cleric Moqtada al-Sadr. Carroll…
OCTOBER 17, 2005 Posted October 18, 2005 Sud FM Sud-Quotidien Censored Authorities closed private radio station Sud FM and detained staff following the broadcast of an interview with a rebel leader. Police halted broadcasting at the station’s studios in the capital Dakar and around the country. They also took away staff for questioning shortly after…
OCTOBER 17, 2005 Posted: November 2, 2005 Marcelo Borrat, TV Libre and AM Libre ATTACKED, THREATENED Borrat, a radio and television reporter who worked for the media conglomerate Multimedio Plural, was beaten, and threatened by three unidentified assailants, the journalist’s lawyer, Edison Lanza, told CPJ. Borrat hosted the show “Juramento Hipocrático” on TV Libre and…
JULY 18, 2005 Updated: October 17, 2005 Garondé Djarma, freelance IMPRISONED, LEGAL ACTION Djarma, a freelance journalist and commentator who contributes frequently to local publications, was sentenced to three years in prison and one million CFA francs (about U.S. $1,764) in fines for defaming the president and “inciting hatred.”
OCTOBER 16, 2005 October 18, 2005 Sunday Leader, Midweek Leader, IrudinaATTACKED At around 8 p.m., as many as 10 men entered a building in Ratmalana, south of the capital Colombo, where the printing press is housed for the English-language weeklies Sunday Leader and Midweek Leader, and the Sinhala-language weekly Irudina, Sunday Leader Editor-in-Chief Lasantha Wickramatunga…
OCTOBER 10-13, 2005 Posted October 13, 2005 Kifle Mulat, EFJA Taye Belachew, EFJA Habetamu Assefa, EFJA Sisay Agena, EFJA HARASSED Ethiopian police summoned and questioned the executive committee of the Ethiopian Free Press Journalists’ Association (EFJA), an independent organization that criticized a government crackdown on the press after opposition parties disputed the outcome of May…
OCTOBER 12, 2005 Posted October 18, 2005 Dion Nissenbaum, Knight Ridder Adam Pletts, Knight Ridder ABDUCTED Nissenbaum, a U.S. reporter for the Knight Ridder newspaper chain, and Pletts, a British freelance photographer working for the news organization, were held for several hours and released unharmed in the Gaza Strip. The abductions were part of an…