JULY 13, 2005 Posted: July 21, 2005 The Tribune CENSORED The government-controlled Media and Information Commission (MIC) refused to allow the independent weekly The Tribune to reopen, after suspending it for one year in June 2004 for allegedly violating Zimbabwe’s repressive Access to Information and Protection of Privacy Act (known as AIPPA).
JULY 18, 2005 Posted: July 21, 2005 Daily News and Daily News on Sunday CENSORED The government-controlled Media and Information Commission (MIC) refused, once again, to license the banned independent Daily News and its sister paper, the Daily News on Sunday, both of which were shut down in September 2003 for violating the country’s draconian…
JULY 15, 2005 Posted: July 18, 2005 Radio Publique Africaine HARASSED Burundi’s National Communications Council ordered the popular independent station Radio Publique Africaine off the air indefinitely, alleging that RPA’s recent election coverage was biased and that it had insulted the council. Alexis Sinduhije, RPA’s director, called the suspension unjust and said the station intended…
JULY 18, 2005 Updated: October 17, 2005 Ngaradoumbé Samory, L’Observateur IMPRISONED, LEGAL ACTION Samory, editor of the private weekly L’Observateur, was sentenced to three months in prison and a fine of 100,000 CFA francs (about U.S.$176) on charges of defaming the president and “inciting hatred.”
JULY 15, 2005 Posted: July 18, 2005 Radio France Internationale CENSORED A media regulatory agency ordered Radio France Internationale (RFI) to halt its FM broadcasts in Ivory Coast until it retracted two disputed reports and paid a fine. The order was the latest incident pitting Ivoirian authorities against the France-based public broadcaster, whom President Laurent…
JULY 14, 2005 Posted: July 18, 2005 Al-Iraqiya news crew ATTACKED A gunman fired on a car carrying an Al-Iraqiya television crew in Baghdad, wounding three staffers, according to news reports. The crew was on its way to cover the funerals of car-bomb victims when a masked assailant walked up to its car in the…
JULY 14, 2005 Posted: July 18, 2005 B92 THREATENED An anonymous caller told a security guard at the Belgrade-based independent radio and television station that a bomb would explode in an hour inside the station’s offices because of its “anti-Serb campaign,” according to local news reports and CPJ interviews.
JULY 7, 2005 Posted: July 18, 2005 Enamul Kabir, Janakantha Several other photographers ATTACKED At least nine photojournalists from national publications were injured, some of them seriously, in the capital, Dhaka, while protesting the alleged mistreatment of their colleagues at the hands of National Security Intelligence (NSI) personnel earlier in the day.