2008

January 25, 2008 Posted  February 7, 2008 Lal Hemantha Mawalage, Sri Lanka Rupavahini Corporation ATTACKED The news producer of a national television network, who was recently involved in a staff protest against Labor Minister Mervyn Silva, was targeted in a knife attack in a suburb of Colombo on January 25, according to Sunanda Deshapriya of local…

JANUARY 24, 2008 Posted February 27, 2008 Jamil al-Nimri, Al-Ghad ATTACKED Al-Nimri, a columnist for the daily paper Al-Ghad, told CPJ that an assailant rang the doorbell to his residence on Gardens Street in Amman’s Tla al-Ali area and asked the maid to see him. Al-Nimri said that when he came to the door, the…

PHILIPPINES: Journalist in custody for libel  JANUARY 22, 2008 Posted February 7, 2008

JANUARY 20, 2008 Posted February 15, 2008 Aziz al-Matni, Al-Anbaa ATTACKED Al-Matni, director-in-charge of the weekly newspaper Al-Anbaa, told CPJ he was surprised by a wildfire threatening his home in Matn district’s Qornet Shehwan, approximately 10 miles from the capital, Beirut, around 12:30 a.m. His car, a blue Mitsubishi Lancer, had been set on fire.…

Newspaper publisher released after year in prison CASE UPDATE JANUARY 19, 2008 Original alert: April 20, 2007 Posted January 25, 2008 Agnès Nkusi-Uwimana, Umurabyo

JANUARY 19, 2008 Posted February 1, 2008 NDTV ATTACKED NDTV offices were vandalized and a staff member beaten by Hindu nationalist activists after the channel asked viewers to evaluate controversial painter M.F. Husein as a possible candidate for a prestigious national award in an text message opinion poll, according to NDTV photographer Anamitra Chakladar and…

JANUARY 17, 2008 Posted February 15, 2008 Manoj Sah, Freelance ATTACKED Sah was attacked by a group of at least 10 men wielding traditional Nepalese khukuri blades on January 17 in the city of Janakpur, eastern Nepal, according to local journalist Guna Raj Luitel and Ramesh Bista of the Federation of Nepali Journalists. Sah sustained…

New York, 17 janvier 2008–La police de la capitale tchadienne, N’djamena,  a fermé mercredi par la force une station de radio et a arrêté son directeur sur des allégations de diffamation, suite à la diffusion d’un communiqué de presse d’une association qui milite pour la défense des consommateurs, selon les journalistes locaux et les médias.

CASE UPDATE JANUARY 17, 2008 Original Alert: December 27, 2007Posted January 18, 2008 Awale Jama Salad, FreelanceIMPRISONED

JANUARY 15, 2008 Posted January 16, 2008 Ayanle Hussein Abdi, BBC Freelance HARASSED Local police arrested BBC freelance reporter Ayanle Hussein Abdi on Tuesday in Beledweyne, the capital of the central Somali region of Hiran. The governor of Hiran Province, Yusuf Dabageed, ordered the arrest of Abdi with no official charges but accused the reporter…