MAY 6, 2005 Posted: May 17, 2005 Martyn See, freelance HARASSED Police were investigating See, an independent documentary filmmaker, under Singapore’s stringent Films Act. On May 6, Assistant Superintendent of Police Chan Peng Khuang called See to inform him that police had received a copy of his film “Singapore Rebel” and had initiated an investigation,…
MAY 5, 2005 Posted: May 17, 2005 Shacab CENSORED, HARASSED Authorities in the autonomous region of Puntland ordered the closing of the weekly newspaper Shacab for allegedly inciting violence, according to CPJ sources. The decree cited the government’s constitutional responsibility to uphold the unity of Puntland.
MAY 4, 2005 Posted: June 9, 2005 André Lima, Diário do Nordeste ATTACKED Military police officers attacked Lima, a photographer for the daily newspaper, while he was covering a demonstration in Fortaleza, the capital of northeastern Ceará state. The protesters opposed efforts by a public utility to install a high-voltage power line inside a poor…
MAY 4, 2005 Posted: May 17, 2005 Paola Briceño Verdina, Radio Bío-Bío HARASSED, ATTACKED Radio reporter Briceño Verdina was beaten and detained by national police agents after covering a student protest in Santiago. Local press reports said a large number of university students gathered in Santiago to protest a bill that would give private banks…
MAY 4, 2005 Updated December 12, 2005 Sally Bowen, freelance LEGAL ACTION, HARASSED In May 2005, Judge Alfredo Catacora Acevedo found British freelance journalist Sally Bowen guilty of criminal defamation and ordered her and her publisher to pay $10,000 Peruvian soles (US$3,000) to businessman Fernando Zevallos. Catacora also sentenced Bowen to one year of probation…
MAY 4, 2005 Posted: May 17, 2005 Darwin Ruslinur, KoridorBudiono Saputro, Koridor LEGAL ACTION Using antiquated criminal laws dating back to Indonesia’s colonial era, a district court in the city of Lampung on the island of Sumatra found the two journalists guilty of criminal defamation and sentenced them to nine months in prison. Darwin Ruslinur,…
MAY 4, 2005 Posted: May 5, 2005 Klein Cantoneros, DXAA-FM KILLED—UNCONFIRMED Cantoneros, a radio broadcaster known for denouncing corruption, died after being shot as many as seven times by motorcycle-riding gunmen in Dipolog City on the southern island of Mindanao. The Committee to Protect Journalists is investigating the circumstances of the case to determine whether…
MAY 3, 2005 Posted: May 3, 2005 Cheng Yizhong, Nanfang Dushi Bao and Nanfang Tiyu HARASSED Chinese authorities refused to allow Cheng to receive a United Nations press freedom award on May 3. Cheng, who was imprisoned for five months in 2004 after his aggressive investigative journalism angered local officials, was ordered not to attend…
MAY 3, 2005 Posted: May 4, 2005 Many Journalists HARASSED, ATTACKED The Committee to Protect Journalists condemned the attacks by police on journalists in the cities of Lahore and Islamabad. During peaceful demonstrations in honor of World Press Freedom Day, approximately 50 journalists were injured when police baton-charged demonstrators marching in the center of Lahore,…
MAY 2, 2005 Updated: May 26, 2005 Omo-Ojo Orobosa, Midwest Herald LEGAL ACTION, IMPRISONED Omo-Ojo Orobosa, publisher of the weekly Midwest Herald, was imprisoned for more than two weeks and accused of sedition after his publication accused First Lady Stella Obasanjo of corruption. His lawyer, Festus Keyamo, told CPJ that Orobosa was arrested at the…