2006
Editor convicted and fined over Prophet cartoons
New York, December 6, 2006—The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the conviction and fine handed down to a Yemeni editor today for reprinting Danish cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad. A court in the capital Sana’a convicted Mohammed al-Asaadi, editor-in-chief of the English-language weekly Yemen Observer, of insulting Islam and fined him 500,000 rials (U.S. $2,500).
Journalist detained, dissident jailed for launching news agency
New York, December 6, 2006—The Committee to Protect Journalists is outraged at the detention of one Cuban journalist for working for an independent news agency, and of a second for attempting to launch such an agency. Police and state security forces swooped on the Havana home of independent journalist Ahmed Rodríguez Albacia on Monday, confiscating…
Local reporter shot while covering antigovernment protest
DECEMBER 5, 2006 Posted December 7, 2006 Wilman Caychigua Robles, El Chasqui and Radio Inca Tropical ATTACKED Caychigua, a reporter for the local daily El Chasqui and Radio Inca Tropical, was shot while covering an antigovernment protest in Abancay, capital of the Apurímac province, 298 miles (480 kilometers) south of Lima, reported the Peruvian press.
Investigative reporter attacked and robbed of story notes
December 5, 2006 Posted December 12, 2006 Eduard Kitashov, Chelovek i Zakon ATTACKED An unidentified assailant knocked Kitashov unconscious in Moscow and robbed him of his notes for a story on an attempted corporate takeover in the southern Russian industrial city of Togliatti. The assailant took Kitashov’s briefcase containing a tape recorder and reporting materials…
Philippines: Broadcaster critically wounded in shooting
New York, December 4, 2006—The Committee to Protect Journalists said today it was investigating whether the shooting of journalist Arnie Pullan on the central Philippine island of Iloilo was related to his work as a radio host. An unidentified gunman shot and seriously wounded Pullan on December 1 as he left the station of MBC-Radio…
Mogadishu radio correspondent held in Puntland
New York, December 4, 2006—Authorities in the semi-autonomous region of Puntland in northeast Somalia have arrested a correspondent for a private radio station in the Islamist-controlled capital Mogadishu, according to the National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ) and local journalists. Puntland supports the weak, U.N.-backed interim government which is in conflict with the Islamists controlling…
CPJ condemns jailing of two journalists for criminal libel
New York, December 4, 2006—The Committee to Protect Journalists is deeply concerned at the jailing in Benin of two journalists convicted of criminal defamation. A court in the capital Cotonou sentenced editor Clément Adéchian and reporter Cécil Adjévi of the private daily L’Informateur to six months in prison on December 2. It also fined them…
Radio station editor killed in Baghdad
New York, December 4, 2006—Unidentified gunmen killed Nabil Ibrahim al-Dulaimi, 36, a news editor for the privately-owned station Radio Dijla, shortly after he left his home in Baghdad’s al-Washash neighborhood for work today, sources at the station told the Committee to Protect Journalists. “We offer our condolences to the family of Nabil Ibrahim al-Dulaimi,” said…
Two officials suspected in shooting of U.S. journalist released
New York, December 4, 2006—The Committee to Protect Journalists renewed its appeal to Mexican federal authorities today to take over the investigation into the killing of U.S. journalist Bradley Roland Will after two local officials suspected in his shooting were freed. Will, 36, an independent documentary filmmaker and reporter for the news Web site Indymedia,…