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2007

  

COLOMBIA: Journalist threatened with death following reports on corruption

NOVEMBER 22, 2007 Posted December 18, 2007 Feibir Beltrán Luna, Cauca Visón, Cauca Noticias THREATENED Beltrán, owner and director of local TV station Cauca Visión and the online daily Cauca Noticias, was threatened with death in the eastern city of Popayán, following reports by the station on local police corruption, the journalist told CPJ.

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Court convicts killers but acquits masterminds in murder

NOVEMBER 14, 2007 Posted December 28, 207 Alberto Rivera Fernández, Frecuencia Oriental KILLED The Superior Court of Ucayali sentenced two men for Rivera’s 2004 murder but acquitted two others accused of masterminding the killing, including a former mayor, the Peruvian press reported.

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HAITI: Unidentified gunman shoot at radio station in Port-au-Prince

NOVEMBER 6, 2007  Posted December 7, 2007 Radio-Télé Ginen ATTACKED Several unidentified gunmen shot at the Port-au-Prince offices of local station Radio-Télé Ginen, causing minor damages to the building’s infrastructure and to a car owned by the station, according to reports in the Haitian press. No one from the station’s staff was injured but a…

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Journalists attacked at legislator’s home

November 1, 2007 Posted November 2, 2007 Prakash Singh, NDTV Habab Ali, NDTV Ajay Kumar, ANI ATTACKED Prakash Singh and at least two other journalists were assaulted in the central eastern state of Bihar, according to NDTV camera operator Anamitra Chakladar and local news reports.

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Two injured in rocket attack

October 28, 2007 Posted November 7, 2007 Raza Mehmood Agha, producer Aaj TV Khalid Jameel, reporter Aaj TV ATTACKED The two men were injured by shrapnel when a rocket landed close to where they were filming clashes between Pakistan’s security forces and Islamic militants, near the town of Mingora, in the Swat district of the…

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MEXICO: Reporter threatened and robbed in central Michoacán

October 26, 2007 Posted November 2, 2007 Ricardo Zarco, Cadena 3 THREATENED, HARASSED Zarco, a 36-year-old freelance cameraman and producer for the Mexico City-based television network Cadena 3, was threatened and robbed while on his way home from work in Morelia, the capital of the central state of Michoacán.

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Two journalists attacked during protest in western El Salvador

OCTOBER 25, 2007 Posted December 7, 2007 Borman Mármol, La Prensa Gráfica Alex Nolasco, Canal 21 ATTACKED During a clash between protesters and local police near the western city of Santa Ana, Mármol, a photographer for the San Salvador-based daily La Prensa Gráfica,and Nolasco, a reporter for the national TV station Canal 21, were attacked…

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Television reporter attacked while covering debate

OCTOBER 25, 2007  Posted December 7, 2007 Paulina Moreno, Ávila TV ATTACKED Moreno, a reporter for the government-owned Ávila TV, was injured during an explosion at a debate in Caracas on the constitutional reforms proposed by President Hugo Chávez Frías.

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MEXICO: TV reporter and cameraman disappear

Gamaliel López Candanosa, TV Azteca Noreste, May 10, 2007, Monterrey Gerardo Paredes Pérez, TV Azteca Noreste, May 10, 2007, Monterrey TV Azteca Noreste reporter Gamaliel López Candanosa and camera operator Gerardo Paredes Pérez went missing on May 10 in the northern city of Monterrey, 440 miles (700 kilometers) from Mexico City, after reporting live on…

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MEXICO: Newsroom resigns following death threats and murder of media workers

October 9, 2007 Posted October 17, 2007 El Imprarcial del Istmo THREATENED All reporters working for the Oaxaca-based daily El Imparcial del Istmo resigned a day after three of the paper’s media workers were murdered on the afternoon of October 8 while driving in the southern state of Oaxaca in a vehicle bearing the paper’s…

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2007