2005

JULY 23, 2005 Posted: August 8, 2005 Tariqul Haq, Dainik Prothom AloGazi Mahbub Rahman, Ajker AloHasan Jahid, Dainik Manabzamin Jamal Uddin Haidari, Dainik Ajker Alo Samsul Alam, Dainik Gramer Kagoj.

AUGUST 6, 2005 Posted: August 26, 2005 Albert Santiago Du Bouchet Hernández IMPRISONED Du Bouchet Hernández was arrested on August 6, tried three days later, and handed a one-year jail term without the knowledge of his family who found out about his detention only after he smuggled a note out of prison. He was the…

AUGUST 6, 2005 Posted: August 17, 2005 Blast Times Daily CENSORED The Communist Party of Nepal banned the vernacular daily in the eastern Ilam district of eastern Nepal. The Blast Times Daily is published out of Dharan, a nearby city.

AUGUST 6, 2005 Posted: August 9, 2005 Adam Tuchlinksi, Przekroj. EXPELLED Tuchlinksi, photojournalist for the weekly Polish news magazine Przekroj, was expelled from Belarus and banned from the country for five years.

New York, August 5, 2005—A judge in the Uzbek capital, Tashkent, convicted two staffers of Internews Network, a U.S.-based media training and advocacy organization, on Thursday of producing television programming without a license and publishing information illegally. Former Internews director Khalida Anarbayeva and accountant Olga Narmuradova will not have to serve the prescribed six-month jail…

Dear Minister Lavrov: The Committee to Protect Journalists is alarmed by the Foreign Ministry’s pattern of using accreditation, visa and other regulations to control and intimidate journalists reporting on the war in Chechnya for foreign media. The Foreign Ministry escalated this campaign against foreign news media by moving this week to bar the U.S. television network ABC from reporting in Russia.

New York, August 4, 2005—The Committee to Protect Journalists is gravely concerned by the Nepalese government’s threat to pull the license of independent radio station Nepal FM 91.8 for defying an official ban on broadcasting news. “The independent broadcasting of FM radio news is protected by Nepal’s constitution and is vital for the free flow…

New York, August 4, 2005—The Committee to Protect Journalists is deeply concerned about recent threats against Glenda M. Gloria, managing editor of Newsbreak, and Mei Magsino-Lubis, Batangas correspondent for the Philippine Daily Inquirer. A funeral wreath was delivered to the residence of Gloria’s mother on Tuesday night, according to a statement released by the Manila-based…

AUGUST 3, 2005 Posted: August 17, 2005 Radio Quebracho Poty ATTACKED Unidentified attackers set on fire the studios of community radio station Radio Quebracho Poty, based in the town of Puerto Casado, on the border between Paraguay and Brazil.

AUGUST 3, 2005 Posted: August 18, 2005 ETTV-S CENSORED The Taiwanese government halted the broadcasts of cable television news station ETTV-S and revoked its license, citing “irresponsible” reporting. The Government Information Office, the official agency tasked with monitoring the media, accused the station of abusing broadcast guidelines with sensational coverage of sex scandals and crime,…