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JULY 28, 2005 Posted: August 17, 2005 Jean Pierre Phambu Lutette, La Tolérance IMPRISONED, LEGAL ACTION The managing director of the small private newspaper La Tolérance was arrested by judicial police, who accused him of “discrediting” a state prosecutor in an article published in his newspaper. Jean Pierre Phambu Lutette was jailed in a cell…

JULY 27, 2005 Posted: August 17, 2005 Radiodiffusion Télévision Ivoirienne (RTI) HARASSED, CENSORED A group of armed, uniformed soldiers stormed the Abidjan offices of state broadcaster Radiodiffusion Télévision Ivoirienne (RTI) and instructed directors not to broadcast footage of opposition members, according to CPJ sources and local news reports. The soldiers identified themselves as members of…

JULY 28, 2005 Posted: August 17, 2005 Sugey Estrada, Noroeste THREATENED Estrada, the correspondent for the Mazatlán edition of the daily Noroeste in the town of Escuinapa, in the northwestern state of Sinaloa, was threatened by the local police chief.

JULY 27, 2005 Posted: August 17, 2005 Arun Kumar Rajnath, South Asian Tribune HARASSED Rajnath, the New Delhi correspondent for the online South Asian Tribune, was harassed and threatened by Indian government agents, according to the news site. In a report released on July 27, the Tribune detailed a series of intimidating phone calls and…

JULY 20, 2005 Posted: August 17, 2005 Gopal Baskota, Drishti Weekly THREATENED Baskota, the executive editor of the Kathmandu-based weekly Drishti, and editor and publisher of the weekly Shambhu Shrestha, received threatening phone calls.

JULY 25, 2005 Posted: August 17, 2005 DXVR-FM, Radio Mindanao Network LEGAL ACTION Jose Galario Jr., mayor of Valencia City on the southern island of Mindanao, ordered the closure of the local radio station, revoked its business license, and threatened to press charges against acting manager Jaos Dignos.

AUGUST 16, 2005 Posted October 31, 2005 Pavel Morozov, Andrei Obozov, Oleg Minich HARASSED, CENSORED On August 16, the city prosecutor’s office in the Belarusian capital, Minsk, launched a criminal case against a Web site that published a series of animated Internet cartoons satirizing Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko. The case was opened under Article 367…

AUGUST 15, 2005 Updated: October17, 2005 Sy Koumbo Singa Gali, L’ObservateurGarondé Djarma, freelance IMPRISONED, LEGAL ACTION Chadian journalist Sy Koumbo Singa Gali was sentenced to one year in prison for “inciting hatred,” the fourth reporter jailed in a month in what local journalists called a growing crackdown on the independent press.

AUGUST 2005 Posted September 8, 2005 Eddy Péhé, Le Nouveau RéveilTHREATENED Péhé, editor of pro-opposition daily Le Nouveau Réveil, told CPJ that he had received death threats over the phone from anonymous callers who accused him of supporting the rebels that have controled the northern half of Ivory Coast since 2002. Péhé said he believed…

AUGUST 12-15, 2005 Updated: December 1, 2005 Andrew Mwenda, Monitor Publications IMPRISONED, LEGAL ACTION An independent radio and print journalist was arrested on August 12 in connection with a talk show on KFM radio focusing on the July helicopter crash that killed southern Sudanese leader John Garang. Andrew Mwenda, a journalist with Monitor Publications, was…