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MAY 21, 2005 Posted: June 10, 2005 Francesca Caferri, Repubblica HARASSED, EXPELLED Caferri, an Italian journalist who traveled to Cuba on assignment for the Rome-based daily Reppublica to cover an unprecedented gathering of opposition activists, was detained in Havana by Cuban authorities and expelled.

MAY 20, 2005 Posted: May 25, 2005 Francesco Battistini, Corriere della Sera Seweryn Blumsztajn, Gazeta Wyborcza Jerzy Jurecki, Tygodnik Podhalanski Wojciech Rogacin, Newsweek HARASSED, EXPELLED

New York, May 20, 2005 – The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the detention and expulsion of several foreign journalists who traveled to Cuba to cover an unprecedented gathering today of opposition activists and international observers. Italian journalist Francesco Battistini, who arrived in Cuba last night on assignment for the Milan-based daily Corriere della Sera,…

New York, May 18, 2005—The Committee to Protect Journalists is deeply concerned by a series of chilling death threats made this week against three well-known Colombian journalists in the capital, Bogotá. Daniel Coronell, news director of “Noticias Uno” (News One) on the television station Canal Uno; Carlos Lozano, news director with the weekly Voz (Voice);…

New York, May 17, 2005—The Committee to Protect Journalists deplores the criminal defamation conviction of Brazilian sports commentator Jorge Kajuru, who will soon begin serving 18 months of overnight detention. Kajuru, whose real name is Jorge Reis da Costa, has been ordered to stay at a prison dormitory in Goiânia, capital of central Goiás state,…

MAY 16, 2005 Posted: May 18, 2005 Daniel Coronell, Canal Uno Carlos Lozano, Voz Hollman Morris, Canal Uno THREATENED Coronell, news director of “Noticias Uno” (News One) on the television station Canal Uno; Lozano, news director with the weekly Voz (Voice); and Morris, producer of the weekly news television show “Contravía” (Opposite Way) on Canal…

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MAY 15, 2005 Posted: June 9, 2004 Rede Amazônica de Televisão CENSORED A judge banned TV station Rede Amazônica de Televisão, the affiliate of television network Rede Globo in central-west Rondônia state, from broadcasting a report on corruption involving state legislators and the governor.

New York, May 12, 2005 – The Committee to Protect Journalists protests the recent decision of a Brazilian district judge to seize all copies of a nonfiction book by journalist and author Fernando Morais. On May 4, Judge Jeová Sardinha de Morais, of the 7th Civil District of Goiânia, the capital of the central state…

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