2005
Kurdish editor sentenced to one year in jail
New York, October 19, 2005—The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the one-year prison sentence given to Kurdish journalist and human rights activist Mohammad Sadiq Kabudvand by an Iranian court. The court declared Kabudvand, managing editor of the bilingual Kurdish and Farsi Payam Mardom Kordestan, guilty of “inciting the population to rebel against the central state,”…
correspondent abducted in Baghdad
New York, October 19, 2005—The Committee to Protect Journalists is alarmed by today’s abduction in Baghdad of a veteran reporter for London’s Guardian newspaper. The Guardian said it believes a group of armed men seized Rory Carroll, the paper’s Baghdad correspondent, as he left a house in the Sadr City, a stronghold of radical cleric…
CPJ mourns journalists killed in earthquake
New York, October 18, 2005—The Committee to Protect Journalists is deeply saddened by the tremendous loss of life in Pakistan, and sends its condolences to the families and colleagues of journalists killed in the earthquake. At least three journalists were killed in the October 8 tragedy and five are unaccounted for. Some 50 journalists have…
In Sri Lanka, arsonists strike printing press as attacks escalate
New York, October 17, 2005—The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns recent violent attacks on the Sri Lankan media and the apparent escalation of the assaults ahead of November’s presidential election. In the most recent incident on Sunday, unidentified men set fire to the printing press of a newspaper group that was critical of the government.…
Police shut radio station, harass staff over interview with separatist
New York, October 17, 2005—The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the closure today of private radio station Sud FM and the detention of staff following the broadcast of an interview with a rebel leader. Police halted broadcasting at the station’s studios in the capital Dakar and around the country. They also took away staff for…
International Organisations Condemn Further Restrictions on Press Freedoms and Freedom of Expression in Nepal
This statement is issued by members of the ‘International Press Freedom and Freedom of Expression Mission to Nepal’. We, as members of the ‘International Press Freedom and Freedom of Expression Mission to Nepal’, express our serious concern that HM King Gyanendra, together with the government and security forces, is seeking to further undermine Nepal’s vibrant…
CPJ protests official harassment of independent newspaper reporting on Chechnya war
Your Excellency, The Committee to Protect Journalists is deeply troubled by a campaign of harassment and intimidation against Stanislav Dmitriyevsky in retaliation for his newspaper’s reporting on the war in Chechnya. The persecution of Dmitriyevsky is part of a broader government campaign to obstruct the work of independent media reporting on Chechnya.
URUGUAY
OCTOBER 17, 2005 Posted: November 2, 2005 Marcelo Borrat, TV Libre and AM Libre ATTACKED, THREATENED Borrat, a radio and television reporter who worked for the media conglomerate Multimedio Plural, was beaten, and threatened by three unidentified assailants, the journalist’s lawyer, Edison Lanza, told CPJ. Borrat hosted the show “Juramento Hipocrático” on TV Libre and…
SENEGAL
OCTOBER 17, 2005 Posted October 18, 2005 Sud FM Sud-Quotidien Censored Authorities closed private radio station Sud FM and detained staff following the broadcast of an interview with a rebel leader. Police halted broadcasting at the station’s studios in the capital Dakar and around the country. They also took away staff for questioning shortly after…