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JUNE 8, 2005 Posted: June 9, 2005 Many journalists HARASSED, ATTACKED Riot police in the Nepalese capital, Kathmandu, arrested dozens of journalists who were protesting the government’s emergency press restrictions and proposed media law amendments that are expected to codify and stiffen those constraints. Local sources said police detained as many as 50 journalists, including…

JUNE 7, 2005 Posted: June 13, 2005 Helen Mohammed, Voice of America Temam Aman, Voice of America Bereket Teklu, Voice of America Taddesse Engidaw, Deutsche-Welle Assegedech Yiberta, Deutsche-Welle LEGAL ACTION

JUNE 6, 2005 Posted: June 21, 2005 Nikolai Goshko, Radio Vesna and Odintsovskaya Nedelya LEGAL ACTION, IMPRISONED An arbitration court in the central Russian city of Smolensk convicted independent journalist Nikolai Goshko on charges of criminal defamation and sentenced him to five years in a prison colony for defaming three Smolensk officials in a July…

JUNE 5, 2005 Posted: June 7, 2005 Duniya Muhyadin Nur, Capital Voice KILLED Radio journalist Duniya Muhyadin Nur was shot to death on Sunday while covering a protest in Afgoye, some 18.6 miles (30 km) from the capital of Mogadishu.

JUNE 4, 2005 Posted: June 7, 2005 Ngaradoumbé Samory, L’Observateur IMPRISONED Chad’s National Security Agency (ANS) arrested Samory, editor of the private weekly L’Observateur, which is based in the capital, N’Djamena. The following day he was transferred to the custody of the judicial police, before being released without charge on June 6 following protests from…

JUNE 4, 2005 Posted: June 21, 2005 Tulkin Karayev, Institute for War and Peace Reporting LEGAL ACTION, IMPRISONED Authorities in the southern Uzbek city of Karshi detained, arrested, and sentenced Tulkin Karayev, a correspondent for the London-based Institute for War and Peace Reporting (IWPR), on charges of hooliganism.

JUNE 3, 2005 Posted: June 24, 2005 José Carlos Forner, CaTV Robson Xavier, CaTV ATTACKED Forner and Xavier, who work for television station CaTV, were attacked by police officers at the end of an indoor soccer game in the city of São Miguel do Iguaçu, in southern Paraná state.

JUNE 3, 2005 Posted: June 15, 2005 Bikram Giri, Kantipur ABDUCTED Maoist rebels abducted Giri on June 3 while he was traveling near the village of Changru in the far western Darchula district, according to Kantipur. Giri was released June 10 after the Federation of Nepalese Journalists appealed to the Maoists.

JUNE 3, 2005 Posted: June 9, 2005 Nepal Telecom Company ATTACKED Armed Maoist rebels destroyed a telecommunication tower in Chinchu in the Midwestern district of Surkhet by detonating a pipe bomb late at night, according to local press accounts. Local phone service has been disrupted.

JUNE 3, 2005 Posted: August 22, 2005 Bardhyl Ajeti, Bota Sot KILLED—CONFIRMED Ajeti, 28, a reporter for the Albanian-language daily Bota Sot (World Today), died in an Italian hospital on June 25, three weeks after being shot in Kosovo, Agence France-Presse reported.