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2007

  

SOMALIA: TV journalists released after being held incommunicado for six weeks

MAY 22, 2007 Posted June 7, 2007 Original Alert: April 11, 2007 Abdulkader Ashir Nadara, Universal Television Bashir Dirie Naleye, Universal Television Hamud Mohammed Osman, Universal Television

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Political group names 12 journalists as “enemies”

MAY 22, 2006 Posted May 30, 2007 Zafar Abbas, Dawn Azhar Abbas, Dawn TV Mazhar Abbas, Agence France-Presse; Aneeq Ahmed, ARY TV Ayaz Amir, Dawn Zahid Hussain, Geo TV Asfar Imam, Aaj TV Zarar Khan, Associated Press

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Grenades damage journalist’s house

MAY 22, 2006 Posted May 30, 2007 Nasrullah Afridi, Daily Mashriq THREATENED, ATTACKED Unidentified assailants lobbed two hand grenades at Afridi’s house in Bara, the main town of Khyber Agency in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas, damaging the surrounding wall and veranda. No one was injured in the attack.

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Provincial journalist convicted of defamation

MAY 22, 2007 Rocío Vásquez Goicochea, Investigando Chimbote LEGAL ACTION The Fifth Criminal Court of Lima convicted Vásquez, director of the weekly Investigando Chimbote in the northeastern Áncash region, of defamation, the journalist told CPJ. Vásquez was handed a one-year suspended prison sentence and ordered to pay 3,000 soles (US$900) as civil reparation to local…

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Two journalists detained

MAY 21, 2007 Posted May 31, 2007 Aung Shwe Oo, Nippon News Network Sint Sint Aung,, Nippon News Network HARASSED The two journalists were detained on May 21 outside Rangoon while covering the docking of a North Korean ship suspected of delivering arms, according to a representative at the network’s Bangkok bureau. The representative spoke…

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Journalist abducted in Gaza

MAY 18, 2007 Posted: May 30, 2007 Abdel Salam Abu Askar, Gaza Media Center ABDUCTED Abdel Salam Abu Askar, director of the private production company Gaza Media Center, was abducted for a short period by members of Hamas’ military wing in Gaza City.

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RUSSIA: Police detain foreign journalists on the way to opposition rally

May 18, 2007 Posted: June 7, 2007 Adrian Bloomfield, The Daily Telegraph Alan Cullison, Wall Street Journal Allard Detiger, Dutch Broadcasting Foundation Boris Raitshuster, Focus

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CAR: Private press group president freed after 2 months in prison

 UPDATE  May 15, 2007 Original alert:  March 13, 2007 Michel Alkhaly Ngady, Les Temps Nouveaux

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TV station attacked during civil unrest

MAY 12, 2006 Posted May 16, 2007 Aaj TV ATTACKED Amid violence between anti- and pro-government groups in Karachi, the independent station’s office came under fire from what media reports identified as pro-government supporters. At least 34 people were reported killed in the unrest.

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MEXICO: Colleagues of journalist who was shot receive death threats

AUGUST 5, 2007 Posted August 16, 2007 Edwin Meneses Santiago, El Seminario del Istmo Daniel Pérez Espinoza, El Seminario del Istmo THREATENED Meneses, a reporter for the Salina Cruz-based weekly El Semanario del Istmo, and Pérez, the paper’s deputy director, told CPJ they received repeated telephone threats during the days that followed the August 5…

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