October 16, 2006 Posted: October 20, 2006 Voice of Tigers radio station ATTACKED Sri Lankan Air Force planes destroyed the broadcasting towers of the Voice of Tigers radio station operated by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam in Killinochchi, an LTTE- held town in northern Sri Lanka. The LTTE said two workers, whom it did…
UPDATE October 13, 2006 Original Case: September 29, 2006 Les Echos du Nord CENSORED The state-controlled National Council on Communications’ (CNC) three-month ban on private weekly Les Echos du Nord over an article critical of government policy expired after the CNC reduced the ban by two months, according to local journalists.
OCTOBER 3, 2006 Posted: October 13, 2006 El Meridiano de Sucre HARRASSED Several groups of unidentified individuals stopped distributors for the Sincelejo-based daily El Meridiano del Sucre, threatened them with guns and bought the majority of that day’s edition, which featured a story linking local government officials to paramilitary leaders, the daily’s editorial director Elsa…
SEPTEMBER 30, 2006 Posted October 5, 2006 Elías Navarro Palomino, La República ATTACKED Unidentified assailants hurled a bomb in front of Navarro’s home in the southern city of Ayacucho, according to press reports. No one was hurt in the early morning attack, but a sign threatening Navarro’s children with death was found on the sidewalk.
UPDATE September 25, 2006 Original Alert: September 20, 2006 Feu d’Or Bosange, Tapis Rouge IMPRISONED Bosange, editor of the private, Kinshasa-based newspaper, was released on bail after nearly two weeks in detention, according to local press freedom group Journaliste en Danger (JED). He was jailed over an article alleging corruption by a top tax official.…
September 25, 2006 Posted: October 13, 2006 Bai Chuan, New Express Zhou Jiong, Southern Metropolis Daily Six other reporters ATTACKED Around 4 a.m., eight reporters from local dailies Yangcheng Evening News, Southern Metropolis Daily, New Express, and local broadcaster Southern TV arrived at the scene of an accident in the Baiyuan district of the southern…