TV reporters injured in explosion
JANUARY 18, 2007 Posted January 19, 2007 Narong Nuansakul, Thai TV Channel 3 Santhiti Koejitmet, Nation Channel ATTACKED Television reporters Nuansakul and Koejitmet were injured when a small roadside bomb exploded while they were on an early morning reporting assignment in southern Thailand’s Narathiwat province.
CPJ urges government to fulfill promise by releasing records
Dear Minister Sherpao and Secretary Shah: The Committee to Protect Journalists is disturbed by the Interior Ministry’s failure to publicly produce investigative records as promised in regard to the deaths of eight journalists and to attacks and detentions involving more than 50 others in Pakistan since 2002.
In China, reporter beaten to death at illegal mine
New York, January 16, 2007—Unidentified men at an illegal coal mine in Huiyuan County, Shanxi Province, severely beat reporter Lan Chengzhang on January 9, leading to his death the following day, according to news reports. The Committee to Protect Journalists is investigating to determine whether Lan’s death was connected to his journalism, and it called…
Thailand’s military junta censors CNN Thaksin interview
New York, January 16, 2007—The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the Thai government’s efforts to block broadcast news coverage of former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, including the censoring this week of a CNN interview with the ousted leader. Officials with the military-appointed interim government instructed local cable provider UBC to block the interview, which first…
HONG KONG: Taiwanese radio reporter attacked in Hong Kong
JULY 1, 2007 Posted July 26, 2007 Ko, I-Chun, Sound of Hope Radio Network ATTACKED, HARASSED Ko told a press conference in Taiwan that she was illegally detained for nine hours at Hong Kong airport, assaulted by police, and deported the following day.
CPJ alarmed by censorship during Bangladesh political crisis
New York, January 11, 2007—The Committee to Protect Journalists is alarmed by orders from the Bangladeshi Information Ministry that private broadcast outlets suspend news programs and print outlets halt critical news coverage during a state of emergency announced this evening. “It’s essential that at this very sensitive moment Bangladeshi citizens have unfettered access to information,”…
Journalist threatened
April 17, 2007 Posted April 25, 2007 Champika Liyanarachchi, Editor, Daily Mirror THREATENED Liyanarachchi said Defense Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa called her to complain about Daily Mirror reporter Easwaran Rutnam’s coverage of sectarian fighting in Pottuvil in Ampara district. The article said that Tamil rebels belonging to the breakaway Karuna faction of the Liberation Tigers of…
CPJ Press Freedom Award winner released from prison
New York, January 4, 2007-Burma has released CPJ Press Freedom Award winner Thaung Tun as part of a New Year amnesty for nearly 3,000 prisoners but six other journalists remain in jail. “We applaud the release our colleague Thaung Tun, but we call on the Burmese government to free the six journalists still being held,”…