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JUNE 20, 2005 Posted: June 30, 2005 Nigerian Union of Journalists Segun Omolehin, Nigerian Union of Journalists Wole Ayodele, VanguardIsiaka Oyibo, The Daily Times HARASSED Police officers in Nigeria’s central Kogi State occupied the local chapter of the Nigerian Union of Journalists (NUJ), harassed local journalists, and detained the local union chairman, according to local…

JUNE 19, 2005 Updated: July 25, 2005 Abdi Farah Nur, Shacab IMPRISONED Police in the autonomous Puntland region of northeast Somalia arrested Farah, editor of the weekly Shacab (The People), after the newspaper resumed publication in defiance of an indefinite government suspension. Farah was not immediately charged, but was being held in a Garowe jail,…

JUNE 18, 2005 Posted: June 30, 2005 thai-insider.com and fm9225.comCENSORED The Ministry of Information and Communications Technology (MICT) issued an order to shut down www.thai-insider.com and www.fm9225.com for allegedly threatening national security and disturbing public order, and for allegedly failing to register the owners’ names properly, according to local and international news reports.

JUNE 18, 2005 June 24, 2005 Jawad Kadhem, Al-Arabiya ATTACKED Kadhem, an Iraqi correspondent for the Dubai-based satellite channel Al-Arabiya. Kadhem was seriously injured in a shooting believed to be the work of insurgents.

JUNE 16, 2005 Posted: July 12, 2005 Efrém Ribeiro, Jornal Meio Norte ATTACKED, THREATENED Ribeiro, a reporter with the daily Jornal Meio Norte, based in the city of Teresina, in the northern state of Piauí, said he was attacked and threatened by a local politician.

JUNE 16, 2005 Posted: June 21, 2005 Tulkin Karayev, Institute for War and Peace Reporting HARASSED Police in the southern Uzbek city of Karshi stopped Karayev as he was trying to travel to the capital, Tashkent, to seek medical treatment, Karayev told CPJ in a telephone interview. The detention came just two days after Karayev…

JUNE 15, 2005 Posted: June 24, 2005 The Post CENSORED Supporters of the ruling Movement for Multiparty Democracy (MMD) attacked and harassed vendors working for the independent daily The Post, Zambia’s leading newspaper. The assailants also seized copies of the paper.

JUNE 15, 2005 Posted: June 21, 2005 Bassma al-Jandaly, Gulf News HARASSED Immigration officers detained al-Jandaly at Dubai’s international airport as she prepared to board a flight for Athens, Greece, with other journalists on Wednesday, the journalist told CPJ. Al-Jandaly said she was taken to the airport’s Criminal Investigation Department, where police said her name…

JUNE 14, 2005 Updated: June 24, 2005 Etienne Ndikuriyo, Zoom Net and Bonesha FM LEGAL ACTION, IMPRISONED Radio and online journalist Ndikuriyo was arrested by the national intelligence agency in connection with a story that questioned the health of President Domitien Ndayizeye, according to The Associated Press and sources interviewed by the Committee to Protect…

JUNE 14-28, 2005 Posted: June 30, 2005 Laurent Lukengu Badimanye, KHRT Léon Mwamba, La Prospérité Ali Tshitoko, Radio Sumbula No. 1 Casimir Ntwite, Radio Concorde Jean Delor Kabamba, Radio Lumière Esaï Musungayi, Radio Universelle