2006
Journalist on trial for defamation missing for five days
New York, September 7, 2006—The Committee to Protect Journalists is concerned by reports that an Iraqi journalist on trial for defamation has been missing since Sunday morning. A source told CPJ that Ahmed Mutair Abbas, managing editor of the defunct daily Sada Wasit in the southern city of Kut, called Sunday morning to say that…
Government suspends Al-Arabiya TV over sectarian violence claim
New York, September 7, 2006—The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the decision of the Iraqi government today to close the Baghdad bureau of the Dubai-based satellite channel Al-Arabiya for one month. The station reported that police entered its Baghdad offices to halt operations after the cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki ordered the suspension.
Vietnam: Pro-democracy advocate and writer held, others harassed
New York, September 6, 2006—The Committee to Protect Journalists is alarmed by the detention in Vietnam of Cong Thanh Do, a political activist and pro-democracy advocate who writes on the Internet under the pen name Tran Nam. He was detained August 14 while on vacation with his family in Phan Thiet. Do, who is a…
ARMENIA: Editor attacked outside home
September 6, 2006 Posted: October 13, 2006 Ovannes Galagzhyan, Iravunk ATTACKED Two unidentified men attacked Galagzhyan, editor-in-chief of Armenia’s top-selling opposition weekly Iravunk, in the courtyard of his apartment building on Komitas Street in the capital city of Yerevan. The two men, both with shaved heads, strong builds, and about 40 years of age, threw…
Editor kidnapped and beheaded
New York, September 6, 2006—The Committee to Protect Journalists deplores the kidnapping and beheading in Sudan of a newspaper editor. Masked gunmen bundled Mohammed Taha Mohammed Ahmed, editor-in-chief of the private daily Al-Wifaq, into a car outside his home in east Khartoum late Tuesday. Police found his severed head next to his body today in…
Journalists given suspended jail sentence for defamation
New York, September 6, 2006—The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the jail sentences given to two journalists in Senegal for defamation. A court in the capital Dakar on Tuesday handed down six-month suspended prison sentences to Alioune Ndiaye and Saliou Sambe, respectively director and reporter with the private daily L’Observateur, according to local news reports…
In Niger, two journalists sentenced to 18 months in jail
New York, September 5, 2006—The Committee to Protect Journalists is alarmed by 18-month prison sentences and heavy fines handed down against the director and editor of the Niger private weekly Le Républicain on charges of defaming the government and publishing false news. A court in the capital, Niamey, found Director Maman Abou and Editor Oumarou…
Assailants attack a reporter and two photographers
SEPTEMBER 5, 2006 Posted: September 21, 2006 Eugenia Cicero, PM Jaime Murrieta Briones, El Diario Aurelio Suárez Núñez, PM ATTACKED Reporter Cicero and photographer Suárez, of the Ciudad de Juárez-based daily PM, and Murrieta, a photographer for the local daily El Diario, were attacked while trying to photograph a group of at least 20 armed…
Journalist held over article criticizing the army
September 3, 2006 Posted: September 13, 2006 Duke Atangana Etotogo, Afrique Centrale IMPRISONED Etotogo, director of the new private monthly magazine Afrique Centrale, was arrested by the Division of Military Security (SEMIL) of the defense ministry in the capital Yaoundé after publishing an article criticizing the army.