JANUARY 4, 2008 Posted January 25, 2008 Zhu Wenna, Faren Zazhi HARASSED/LEGAL ACTION Police and local officials from Xifeng in the northeastern Chinese province of Liaoning traveled nearly 600 miles (1,000 kilometers) to Beijing with a warrant to arrest reporter Zhu Wenna in a defamation case on January 4, according to Reuters and The Washington…
JANUARY 4, 2008 Posted January 18, 2008 The Herald CENSORED Catholic weekly newspaper The Herald was banned from referring to God by the name “Allah” in its Malay-language articles, according to international press reports. Abdullah Mohammed Zain, a minister in the prime minister’s department, reiterated late last year’s ban in a press conference on January…
DECEMBER 31, 2007 Posted January 18, 2008 Muneeza Jahangir, Geo TV ATTACKED, DETAINED According to the Asian Human Rights Commission, Jahangir, a reporter for Geo TV, was filming torn posters and banners of political parties in Lahore. Armed men ordered Jahngir, her sister Sulema, and some of their friends to follow them to the Pakistan…
DECEMBER 27, 2007 Posted January 14, 2008 T. M. G. Chandrasekara, Sri Lanka Rupavahini Corporation ATTACKED Chandrasekara, news director of the state-run Rupavahini television station, became the center of a dispute when Sri Lankan Labor Minister Mervin Silva and a group of followers entered the station’s Colombo newsroom on December 27 to complain about its…
New York, December 26, 2007 — The Philippine government today announced that it has identified a witness in the slaying of radio broadcaster Ferdinand Lintuan on Monday. The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo to ensure that the case is aggressively pursued in order to bring Lintuan’s attackers to justice.
DECEMBER 24, 2007 Posted January 14, 2008 Capucine Henry, Constantin Simon, France 24 DETAINED Henry and Simon, reporter and cameraman for the news channel France 24, were detained by soldiers on December 24 after filming an army checkpoint, and released two days later, according to international news reports. The journalists were traveling with a Tamil…
New York, December 21, 2007—The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on the Philippine authorities to vigorously prosecute two suspects who have been arrested in connection with the 2001 shooting death of Philippine radio reporter Rolando Ureta. According to the National Union of Journalists, Philippines (NUJP), and local media reports, Jessie Ticar surrendered to police on…
Dear Mr. President: The Committee to Protect Journalists is greatly concerned about the upcoming trial of Jahangir Alam Akash, a reporter for the Bengali-language daily Dainik Sangbad, based in Rajshahi.He is charged with extortion, but we believe Akash has been unfairly targeted because of his investigative reporting, and we are greatly concerned about his health.