MAY 10, 2006 Posted: May 12, 2006 Luís Bahamonde, Correo Eliana Villavicencio, Correo THREATENED Bahamonde and Villavicencio, editor and reporter respectively for the Lima-based daily Correo in the northwestern city of Trujillo, were threatened with death by an anonymous caller after reporting on the arrest of members of a local drug cartel.
APRIL 27, 2006 Posted: May 8, 2006 Abraham Reta Alemu, Ruh IMPRISONED Alemu, former editor of the now defunct Amharic-language weekly Ruh, was sentenced on April 24 to one year in jail for defamation, and imprisoned the same day. The charge stemmed from an article published in Ruh several years ago, which accused senior government…
May 8, 2006 Rob Jamieson, The Chronicle Arnold Mlelemba, The Chronicle Dickson Kashoti, The Chronicle HARASSED, LEGAL ACTION Three journalists working for the private weekly newspaper The Chronicle were detained and charged with criminal libel in connection with an article alleging that Malawi’s then-attorney general was involved in the theft of a computer. Attorney General…
May 2, 2006 Posted: May 8, 2006 Camelo Luís de Sá, Quiterianópolis FM ATTACKED Sá, a reporter with the community radio station Quiterianópolis FM in the northeastern state of Ceará, was shot twice in the arm at the station’s offices, according to the local news agency Agencia Nordeste. Sá is known for criticizing the local…
MAY 8, 2006 Posted: June 1, 2006 Octavio Carvajal, STC Noticias HARASSED Carvajal, host of the opinion program “Zonas de Debates” and the news show “Más que Noticias” for the Tegucigalpa-based radio station STC Noticias, was attacked and threatened by an official of the local telecommunications company Hondutel. Carvajal believes the attack was motivated by…
April 13, 2006 Posted: May 5, 2006 Mastura Mahmood, Rewan LEGAL ACTION Mastura Mahmood, 25, a journalist for the women’s weekly paper Rewan, faces trial on two separate defamation charges brought by the director of the Halabja Monument, Ibrahim Hawrami, and the general directorate of the security forces.
APRIL 24, 2006 Posted: May 1, 2006 Anselme Masua, Radio Okapi ATTACKED Soldiers from the Republican Guard, a military detachment that falls under the president’s authority, attacked Masua, a journalist for Radio Okapi, at a military base in the central city of Kisangani, according to a United Nations spokesman and the local press freedom organization…
APRIL 20, 2006Posted: May 1, 2006Fortune Bemba, ThalassaHARASSED, LEGAL ACTION Bemba, director of the private Brazzaville-based weekly Thalassa, was arrested and charged with defamation, insulting the head of state, and “propagating false news,” according to the press freedom organization Journaliste en Danger (JED), which is based in neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo. Those charges are not criminal…
March 27, 2006 Posted: April 25, 2006 Freedom Radio CENSORED Nigeria’s National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) suspended five political programs and all live phone-in shows on Freedom Radio, an independent station based in the northern city of Kano. In addition, the Commission ordered the station to stop all broadcasts between 5 and 10 pm for two…