APRIL 25, 2005 Posted: May 4, 2005 Nguyen Thanh Giang and Tran Khue HARASSED The Committee to Protect Journalists condemned the official harassment of dissident writers Nguyen Thanh Giang and Tran Khue. In an apparent attempt to silence dissent before the 30th anniversary of the defeat of U.S. forces, articles in the state media denounced…
APRIL 25, 2005 Posted: June 7, 2005 Nguyen Thanh Giang and Tran Khue HARASSED The Committee to Protect Journalists condemned the official harassment of dissident writers Nguyen Thanh Giang and Tran Khue. In an apparent attempt to silence dissent before the 30th anniversary of the defeat of U.S. forces, articles in the state media denounced…
APRIL 23, 2005 Posted: April 25, 2005 Saleh Ibrahim, APTN KILLED—CONFIRMED Ibrahim was killed by gunfire near the city’s al-Yarmouk Circle, the scene of an earlier explosion that he and his brother-in-law, AP photographer Mohamed Ibrahim, had gone to cover, according to The Associated Press. The AP said Mohamed Ibrahim suffered shrapnel wounds to the…
APRIL 23, 2005 Posted: May 3, 2005 Irina Petrushova, Respublika Delovoye Obozreniye HARASSED, IMPRISONED Police in the Russian city of Volokolamsk detained Petrushova, editor of the Kazakh opposition weekly Respublika Delovoye Obozreniye, for two days at the request of Kazakh authorities, the journalist told CPJ.
APRIL 21, 2005 Posted: May 17, 2005 Mohamed Taha Mohamed Ahmed, Al-Wifaq LEGAL ACTION Al-Wifaq CENSORED Ahmed, an editor, was tried on criminal charges of insulting the Prophet Mohammed after publishing an April 21 article in the daily Al-Wifaq. The article, by the well-known Muslim historian Al-Maqrizi, called into question the Prophet Mohammed’s lineage, according…
APRIL 20, 2005 Posted: May 12, 2005 Guibaï Gatama and Abdoulaye Oumaté L’Oeil du Sahel LEGAL ACTION. On April 20, a court in Maroua, the capital of Cameroon’s Far North Province, sentenced Guibaï Gatama, publication director of the independent weekly L’Oeil du Sahel, and Abdoulaye Oumaté, a journalist for the paper, to five months in…
APRIL 20-28, 2005 Posted: May 4, 2005 Shacab HARASSED Abdirashid Qoransey, Shacab Abdi Farah Nur, Shacab HARASSED, LEGAL ACTION Security forces in the autonomous Puntland region attacked the premises of the weekly newspaper Shacab (Voice of the People) in the town of Garowe, breaking the front gate and damaging the editor’s car and other property,…
APRIL 20, 2005 Posted: May 3, 2005 Kanal FM CENSORED The High Audiovisual and Communications Authority (HAAC) suspended Kanal FM, an.independent radio station in the capital, Lomé, for one month because of an April 18 editorial titled “Autopsy of an Electoral Campaign.” The editorial accused members of the ruling party of committing widespread human rights…
APRIL 20, 2005 Posted: April 27, 2005 Davison Maruziva, The Standard HARASSED, LEGAL ACTION Savious Kwinika, The Standard HARASSED, LEGAL ACTION Police brought criminal charges against Standard editor Maruziva. The following day they also brought charges against reporter Kwinika. Both journalists were charged in connection with an April 10 story alleging election irregularities—specifically for deliberately…