2006

NOVEMBER 25, 2006 Posted December 19, 2006 Saúl Contreras, El Mundo de Córdoba Rafael Saavedra, El Mundo de Córdoba THREATENED Contreras, photographer for the local daily El Mundo de Córdoba, was threatened at gunpoint by unidentified individuals in Córdoba, a city in the southeastern Veracruz state. The following morning, Saavedra, a police reporter for the…

NOVEMBER 8, 2006 Posted: November 16, 2006 SINDH TV CENSORED Cable operators were ordered to stop delivering the privately owned Sindhi-language channel by the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA). The broadcaster was given no explanation by the government for its decision. The channel’s management said the authority did not say how long the ruling…

 UPDATE  November 7, 2006 Original Case: October 18, 2006 Norbert Ngoua Mezui, Nku’u Le Messager IMPRISONED Mezui, editor of the private, Libreville-based weekly, was provisionally released after serving a 21-day sentence for defamation. The sentence was suddenly implemented three years after it was handed down. This case has been marked by gross judicial irregularities, according…

 UPDATE  November 7, 2006 Original Case: May 3, 2006 Beauty Mokoba, Botswana Television Koketso Seofela, Botswana Television

 UPDATE  November 1, 2006 Original Case: October 23, 2006 Fahad Mohammed Abukar, Warsan Radio Mohammed Adawe Adam, Radio Shabelle Muktar Mohammed Atosh, HornAfrik Radio

NOVEMBER 1, 2006 Rehmanullah, Subah ATTACKED Rehmanullah, 35, correspondent for the Urdu-language daily Subah, was shot and wounded at around 8:15 p.m. near his home in Shabqadar, about 22 miles (35 kilometers) north of Peshawar, according to Behroz Khan, Peshawar bureau chief for The News. Witnesses told Khan that the car was sprayed with more…

UPDATE  October 30, 2006 Original Alert: September 19, 2006 Aloys Kabura, Agence Burundaise de Presse (ABP) IMPRISONED, LEGAL ACTION

OCTOBER 30, 2006 Posted: November 3, 2006 Amran Hossain, The Daily Star Shawkat Jamil, The Daily Star Farzana Godhuli, AFP Pintu, ATN Bangla Milu, NTV Mir Ahmed, Miru Janakantha Akhter Hossain, Bangladesh Today

OCTOBER 30, 2006 POSTED: November 16, 2006 Luis García Miró, Expreso LEGAL ACTION García Miró, editor of the Lima-based daily Expreso, was ordered by judge Mercedes Gómez Marchisio of Lima’s 35th Penal Court to “refrain from publishing any news or journalistic report” related to former Minister of Justice Diego García Sayán, who is suing the…

October 27, 2006 Posted: December 8, 2006 Evariste Ngaralbaye, Notre Temps IMPRISONED Ngaralbaye, a journalist for the private weekly Notre Temps, was arrested when he answered a police summons in the capital N’djamena. He told CPJ that he was held incommunicado in a cell 12 feet by 9 feet (four by three meters) with 19…