JUNE 28, 2005 Posted: July 18, 2005 Shafiqul Islam, Janakantha ATTACKED Four men identified as cadres of Jagrata Muslim Janata Bangladesh (JMJB), an outlawed Islamic militant group headed by Bangla Bhai, attacked Shafiqul on his way to the Bagmara Press Club in Rajshahi, according to The Daily Star. Shafiqul is a Janakantha correspondent who had…
JUNE 28, 2005 Posted: July 5, 2005 Ahmed Wael Bakri, Al-Sharqiyah KILLED—CONFIRMED Bakri, a director and news producer for the local television station, Al-Sharqiyah, was killed by gunfire as he approached U.S. troops, according to Ali Hanoon, a station director. Hanoon said Bakri was driving from work to his in-laws’ home in southern Baghdad at…
JUNE 28, 2005 Posted: July 1, 2005 Magomedzagid Varisov, Novoye Delo KILLED—CONFIRMED Machine-gun toting assailants opened fire on Varisov’s sedan at around 9 p.m. as he was returning home with his wife and driver. Varisov sustained multiple bullet wounds and died at the scene. His wife was not injured; the driver was hospitalized with injuries,…
JUNE 28, 2005 Posted: July 7, 2005 Nikolai Kochurov, Severodvinsky Rabochy ATTACKED Kochurov, editor-in-chief of Severodvinsk’s independent newspaper, Severodvinsky Rabochy, was beaten by two unidentified assailants and hospitalized with head and arm injuries. Assailants waiting in the entry to Kochurov’s apartment building struck him with a heavy object as the journalist left for work that…
JUNE 25, 2005 Posted: July 25, 2005 Maha Ibrahim, Baghdad TV KILLED—CONFIRMED Ibrahim, a news producer for the Iraqi television station Baghdad TV, was shot and killed by U.S. forces fire in Baghdad as she drove to work with her husband, who is also an employee of the station, Iraqi journalists and colleagues at Baghdad…
JUNE 22-23, 2005 Posted: June 30, 2005 Kishor Karki, Blast TimeKishor Shrestha, Jana Aastha HARASSED Police questioned Kishor Karki, editor of Blast Time, a daily newspaper based in the town of Dharan, about his reporting on a clash between the government and Maoist rebels, according to the Federation of Nepalese Journalists (FNJ).
JUNE 22, 2005 Posted: June 24, 2005 Ten journalists HARASSED Police arrested 10 journalists who were protesting media restrictions in Banepa, in the central district of Kavre, according to nepalnews.com and local sources. Journalists had gathered to read poetry and sing in support of press freedom and democracy. They were arrested after entering an area…
JUNE 21, 2005 Posted: July 22, 2005 Gilmário Batista, TV Globo Lúcio Sturm, TV Globo Marçal Araújo, TV Globo ATTACKED Three men attacked a news crew from television station TV Globo. The news crew was working on a news report in front of the headquarters of the ruling Workers Party (PT) in the city of…