AUGUST 13, 2007 Posted August 21, 2007 Juan Pablo Monsalve, RCN THREATENED Monsalve, a Bogotá-based reporter for the nightly news program “La Noche” on national television station RCN, received multiple threatening calls after he did initial reporting on alleged government corruption in a small town in the northern Bolívar province. Monsalve told CPJ the piece…
AUGUST 12, 2007 Posted August 17, 2007 Yawali Ghag radio station ATTACKED At around 2 a.m., a group of about 12 Taliban fighters attacked the office of the Yawali Ghag community radio station in Wardak province, just west of Kabul, according to local journalists. The fighters assaulted the station’s guard, bound him, and briefly held…
August 11, 2007 Posted August 24, 2007 Emmanuel Kabetu Muela, Radio Arc-En-Ciel IMPRISONED Police in the village of Kamako in the central Western Kasaï province arrested Muela, the host of a call-in program on private Radio Arc-En-Ciel, as he walked home from work, according to local journalists.
UPDATE August 10, 2007 Original case: April 20, 2004 Samuel Romã, Radio Conquista FMKILLEDEurico Mariano, former mayor of Coronel Sapucaia in the southwestern state of Mato Grosso do Sul, was sentenced to 17 years and nine months in prison for hiring the gunmen who in 2004 shot Romã, a host and owner of Radio Conquista…
August 9, 2007 POSTED September 12, 2007 Stefan Cvetkovic, TNT, Bela Crkva THREATENED On August 9, Cvetkovic, editor in chief of the independent radiotelevision station TNT in the city of Bela Crkva, about 100 km (62 miles) east of the capital, Belgrade, received two anonymous phone calls from an unidentified number. A male voice threatened…
August 8, 2007 Original Alert: August 7, 2007 Manda Mutombo, Radiotélévision Nationale CongolaiseIMPRISONED Mutombo, the host of a weekly music program on public broadcaster Radiotélévision Nationale Congolaise in the diamond-rich city of Kananga, was released without charge after five days of detention, according to local journalists. After handing Mutombo a few dollars for transportation, a…
August 4, 2007 Posted September 28, 2007 Suara Timor Lorosa’e ATTACKED On August 4, amid rising political tensions surrounding the formation of a new government, unidentified men attacked the office of the country’s leading daily, Suara Timor Lorosa’e (STL), according to the Bangkok-based Southeast Asian Press Alliance (SEAPA).