JUNE 30 and JULY 1, 2005 Posted: July 18, 2005 Luc Mikomo, RAGA TV HARASSED RAGA FM, RAGA TV, and RAGA Plus CENSORED As opposition groups protested a delay in national elections originally due to take place by June 30, security forces detained Mikomo, news director at RAGA TV, for several hours in the capital,…
JUNE 30, 2005 Posted: July 12, 2005 Tadesse Kabede, Lisane Hezeb Fassil Yenalem, Addis ZenaDaniel Gezahegne, Moged LEGAL ACTION The editors of three private weeklies were arrested and charged in connection with their work, according to CPJ sources and the Addis Ababa-based Ethiopian Free Press Journalists’ Association (EFJA). Kabede, Yenalem, and Gezahegne were released after…
JUNE 30, 2005 Posted: July 7, 2005 Haruna Acheneje, The Punch HARASSED State Security Service (SSS) agents arrested Acheneje, a correspondent in Nigeria’s southern Akwa Ibom State for the independent daily The Punch, at his office. The agents detained and questioned Acheneje for about eight hours before releasing him without charge.
JUNE 30, 2005 Posted: July 28, 2005 Li Jianping, freelancer IMPRISIONED The Committee to Protect Journalists condemned the imprisonment of Internet journalist Li Jianping on suspicion of defamation. Authorities detained Li on May 27 in Zibo, a city in northeastern China’s Shandong Province, and formally arrested him for defamation on June 30, according to ChinaEForum,…
JUNE 29, 2005 Posted: July 22, 2005 Fred M’membe, The Post HARASSED Police questioned M’membe, editor-in-chief of Zambia’s leading daily The Post, and threatened to charge him with defaming the president in editorial commentaries published by the newspaper. According to local sources, The Post had published a recent series of editorials accusing President Levy Mwanawasa…
JUNE 28, 2005 Posted: June 30, 2005 Befekadu Moreda, Tomar Zelalem Gebre, Menilik Dawit Fassil, Asqual Tamrat Serbesa, Satenaw HARASSED, LEGAL ACTION Police arrested four editors of private Amharic-language newspapers in Ethiopia’s capital, Addis Ababa, CPJ sources said. The editors were charged with defaming the military, Ethiopian officials confirmed to Agence France-Presse (AFP) and Reuters.
JUNE 28, 2005 Posted: July 18, 2005 Nazneen Akhter, Janakantha Journalists at Jugantor, Ittefaq and Prothom Alo THREATENED Janakantha reported that Nazneen Akhter, a reporter for the newspaper in Dhaka, had been threatened after her coverage of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) activities at a women’s college. JCD is the ruling party’s student wing.