AUGUST 15, 2005 Posted August 18, 2005 El Informador ATTACKED Attackers hurled a grenade at the offices of El Informador. The newspaper said police believed a motorcycle passenger lobbed a fragmentation grenade which exploded outside the newsroom where three journalists and a designer were working. The blast damaged the building but caused no injuries.
AUGUST 15, 2005 Posted: August 18, 2005 Kowit Sanandang, Bangkok Post Post Publishing LEGAL ACTION Two state-owned firms filed criminal defamation complaints against the editor of the English-language daily Bangkok Post, Kowit Sanandang, and the newspaper’s parent company, Post Publishing Plc. The charges carry penalties of up to two years in prison and a fine…
AUGUST 14, 2005 Posted August 17, 2005 Mohamed Ouathi, France 3 Television ABDUCTED Mohamed Ouathi, a soundman for France 3 Television was forced into a car by three men with rifles as he walked to his hotel with colleagues in Gaza City, according to international press reports.
AUGUST 14, 2005 Posted: August 18, 2005 Mohamed Ouathi, Daily News LEGAL ACTION Ouathi, a television soundman for of France 3 Television, was forced into a car by three men with rifles as he walked to his hotel with colleagues in Gaza City, according to international press reports.
AUGUST 12, 2005 Updated: December 1, 2005 Kelvin Jakachira, Daily News LEGAL ACTION Jakachira, accused of working without accreditation for the banned Daily News, went on trial in a Harare court, according to his lawyer and the Media Institute for Southern Africa (MISA). Jakachira faced up to two years in prison in what was seen…
AUGUST 12, 2005 Posted September 12, 2005 Willie Mponda, The Sun LEGAL ACTION Mponda, editor of community newspaper The Sun in the central town of Gweru, was convicted of publishing false information “prejudicial to the state” under the repressive Public Order and Security Act (POSA), according to local sources. He was fined Zimbabwean $100,000 (U.S.…
AUGUST 12, 2005 Posted October 31, 2005 Relangi Selvarajah, Sri Lanka Rupavahini Corp. KILLED—UNCONFIRMED Popular Tamil broadcaster Relangi Selvarajah and her husband, a political activist, were killed by unidentified gunmen in Colombo on the same day that Lakshman Kadirgamar, Sri Lanka’s foreign minister, was assassinated. Political leaders blamed the rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam…
JULY 8, 2005 Posted: August 9, 2005 Mei Magsino-Lubis, Philippine Daily Inquirer THREATENED Lubis, Batangas correspondent for the Philippine Daily Inquirer, went into hiding after a caller told her that two prisoners from the provincial jail had been released with orders to kill her. The caller suggested that she leave Batangas, the provincial capital of…
AUGUST 11, 2005 UPDATED: September 8, 2005 KFM Radio CENSORED Ugandan authorities shut the prominent independent radio station a day after it aired a talk show about the July helicopter crash that killed southern Sudanese leader John Garang. The action came a day after President Yoweri Museveni threatened to shut down any news outlet that…
AUGUST 11-12, 2005 Posted: August 18, 2005 Igor Rotar. Forum 18 HARASSED, EXPELLED Russian journalist Igor Rotar, who was detained by Uzbek authorities in Tashkent on August 11 and put on a plane bound for Almaty, Kazakhstan, late the next day, according to local and international press reports.