MARCH 17, 2005 Posted: March 30, 2005 Marielos Monzón, Radio Universidad Gabriel Mazzarovich, Radio Universidad THREATENED, HARASSED Monzón, a radio journalist based in Guatemala City, received several threatening phone calls. Mazzarovich, Monzón’s Uruguayan-born producer, was falsely reported dead to Uruguayan media.
MARCH 16, 2005 Posted: March 17, 2005 Narayan Wagle, Kantipur HARASSED Police delivered a letter to Wagle, editor of Kantipur, Nepal’s largest daily, ordering him to present himself at the criminal investigation branch of the Kathmandu police office on the morning of March 17. Wagle told CPJ that he has been asked for “clarification” of…
MARCH 15, 2005 Updated: April 15, 2005 Raphael Tenthani, freelance Mabvuto Banda, The Nation LEGAL ACTION, HARASSED Police arrested Tenthani, a freelance reporter who contributes to the BBC, and Banda of the independent daily The Nation at their homes in the southern city of Blantyre after the journalists reported that President Bingu wa Mutharika had…
MARCH 15, 2005 Posted: March 22, 2005 Leonel Lacerda, RBS TV Éverton Machado, RBS TV ATTACKED, HARASSED Four unidentified men harassed reporter Lacerda and cameraman Machado while they were covering a farmers’ protest against the state government near the town of Sarandi, in southern Rio Grande do Sul state. The men also burned the journalists’…
MARCH 14, 2005 Posted: March 28, 2005 SM Gorky, Jugantor ATTACKED, HARASSED Members of the elite army unit Rapid Action Battalion beat SM Gorky, senior photographer for the daily Jugantor, after he photographed them roughing up people on the street. The photographer was held briefly and released, according to Jugantor.
MARCH 14, 2005 Posted: June 17, 2005 Hussam Sarsam, Kurdistan TV KILLED—CONFIRMED Sarsam, a cameraman working with Kurdistan TV, a station affiliated with the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP), was shot and killed by suspected insurgents a day after they kidnapped him in the Iraqi city of Mosul.
MARCH 13, 2005 Posted: March 17, 2005 Mohamed Ould Lamine Mahmoudi, freelance IMPRISONED According to press reports and a Mauritanian source, police detained freelance journalist Mahmoudi after he interviewed a woman in the southern town Mederdra who claimed that she was kept as a slave by a family in another small Mauritanian town.
JULY 3, 2005 Updated: August 10, 2005 Rolando “Dodong” Morales, dxMD KILLED—CONFIRMED The radio commentator was ambushed and shot at least 15 times by a gang of motorcycle-riding assailants while driving home on the southern island of Mindanao. Morales, who died at the scene, had just finished hosting his weekly program on radio dxMD in…