2005

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.

Editor’s note: The original text of this alert has been corrected to accurately characterize the newspaper Minbar i Halq. New York, June 2, 2005—The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the 40-day detention of Jumaboy Tolibov, an independent journalist from northern Tajikistan. This week, deputy regional prosecutor Izatullo Mukhammadiyev confirmed the journalist’s detention on criminal charges…

JUNE 2, 2005 Posted: June 3, 2005 Samir Qassir, Al-Nahar KILLED The Committee to Protect Journalists strongly condemned the murder of Lebanese columnist Samir Qassir, who was killed in a car bombing outside his home in Beirut’s Ashrafiyeh neighborhood.

JUNE 2, 2005 Posted: June 21, 2005 Daif al-Gahzal al-Shuhaibi, freelance KILLED—CONFIRMED Al-Ghazal’s body was found in Benghazi, his hometown, about 1,000 km (620 miles) east of the capital, Tripoli, on or about June 2 after he went missing from his home on May 21, according to several sources. Al-Ghazal was a former journalist for…

New York, June 2, 2005—Police, political leaders, and criminals violently attacked over a dozen journalists in five separate incidents across Bangladesh in recent days. On May 26, a criminal gang attacked Manunur Rashid Rabi, correspondent for the daily Nayadiganto, in the eastern town of Gangni, police said. The attack was in retaliation for his articles…

New York, June 2, 2005 – The director of a recently banned radio production and distribution company filed a legal challenge with Nepal’s Supreme Court, inspiring local radio journalists to protest. In his May 30 petition to the court, Communication Corner Director Gopal Guragain said that the government’s May 27 ban was an illegal effort…

JUNE 2005 Posted: June 21, 2005 Sayed Sulaiman Ashna, Tolo TV Massood Qiam, Tolo TV Shakeb Isaar, Tolo TV THREATENED A series of threats were made against Afghan journalists at the popular private television station Tolo TV in the capital, Kabul.