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JUNE 13 2005 Posted: June 21, 2005 Many journalists HARASSED, ATTACKED Dozens of Nepalese journalists were arrested in the capital, Kathmandu, and the neighboring district of Kavre as protests against media restrictions continued across the country. More than 40 journalists were briefly detained in police stations in Kathmandu, according to the Federation of Nepalese Journalists…

JUNE 12, 2005 Posted: June 30, 2005 Frontera ATTACKED Masked assailants attacked the offices of the daily Frontera in the city of Mérida, in the western state of Mérida, in apparent retaliation for a news report.

JUNE 12, 2005 Posted: June 21, 2005 The Khartoum Monitor CENSORED Sudanese justice officials canceled the license of Sudan’s English-language daily, The Khartoum Monitor. Alfred Taban, the paper’s chairman, said he was notified in a letter from the National Press Council, the government agency that regulates the press. Taban told CPJ that a criminal court…

JULY 6, 2005 Updated: August 17, 2005 Abiy Gizaw, Netsanet LEGAL ACTION Gizaw, editor-in-chief of the private Amharic-language weekly Netsanet, was arrested and accused of defaming the Defense Ministry in connection with three separate articles, according to CPJ sources.

JULY 6, 2005 Posted: July 7, 2005 Judith Miller, The New York Times IMPRISONED U.S. District Court Judge Thomas F. Hogan ordered reporter Miller jailed immediately for refusing to reveal her confidential source to a grand jury investigating the leak of a CIA operative’s identity. He ordered her held on a contempt of court charge…

JULY 6, 2005 Posted: July 18, 2005 Rafiqul Islam, Amar Desh ATTACKED Rafiqul, a correspondent for the daily in the northwestern town of Rajshahi, was assaulted by a group of men he identified to local reporters as activists of the ruling party’s student wing, Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD). As many as 10 attackers entered the…

JULY 6, 2005 Posted: July 22, 2005 Epoch Times CENSORED The Malaysian government sent an official letter upholding a recent ban on the nationwide distribution of the Epoch Times, a pro-Falun Gong Chinese-language newspaper, for presenting a negative image of China.

JUNE 11, 2005 Posted: June 30, 2005 Grujica Spasovic, Danas Danas THREATENED An anonymous telephone threat was made to the Belgrade-based independent daily after Danas reported that the Serbian government had identified the town where indicted war criminal Ratko Mladic was hiding.

JUNE 9, 2005 Updated: June 24, 2005 Jabir Idrissa, Rai CENSORED Authorities on the semi-autonomous Tanzanian island of Zanzibar banned political columnist Jabir Idrissa from writing, saying he was working without permission. Idrissa told the Committee to Protect Journalists that he believes he was banned for criticizing the Zanzibar government.

JUNE 9, 2005 Posted: June 15, 2005 Guru Prasad Gautum, Federation of Nepalese Journalists Several journalists HARASSED, ATTACKED Several Nepalese journalists were injured, at least one seriously, as police clashed with reporters and photographers demonstrating against government media restrictions and detentions in protests across the country, according to local news reports.