AUGUST 28, 2007 Posted August 28, 2007 Mohammad Zahir Bahand, Salam Watandar, Reporter DETAINED, INTERROGATED, THREATENED Bahand was kidnapped by Taliban in the vicinity of the Pulisurkh area in Sayedabad district of Wardak province and was released after a few hours of questioning, according to Kabul-based radio station Salam Watandar’s manager Sanjar Qiam. Bahand was…
August 28, 2007 Posted September 17, 2007 Martín Serrano Herrera, Diario Tribuna THREATENED Serrano, editor of the Jalapa-based daily Diario Tribuna, found high-caliber bullets with red paint wrapped in newspaper just outside his home in the southeastern state of Veracruz. The journalist told CPJ he believed the threat was a warning against his critical reporting…
AUGUST 27, 2007 Posted September 7, 2007 L’Intelligent HARASSED About 40 militants of pro-government student group FESCI invaded the offices of private daily L’Intelligent in the capital, Abdijan, sequestering journalists for two hours, seizing newsroom equipment and knocking down the door of editor Laurent Okoué, according to news reports and local journalists.
August 27, 2007 POSTED September 12, 2007 Edwin David Hernández, Star Chanel HARASSED Hernández, cameraman for the news program “Noti Star” on national cable channel Star Chanel, was held for more than three hours by protesters in the central Baja Verapaz province, he told CPJ.
AUGUST 26, 2007 Posted September 5, 2005 Stéphane Kitutu O’Leontwa, Canal Congo Télévision Thierry Musenepo, Business Radio Télévision Christian Ali, Business Radio TélévisionTutu Kazadi, Business Radio TélévisionHARASSED
AUGUST 24, 2007 Posted August 29, 2007 Makkal Osai CENSORED The government ordered the month-long closure of Makkal Osai, a Tamil-language newspaper, for publishing a picture of Jesus holding a cigarette and what appears to be a can of beer. The Internal Security Ministry suspended the paper’s publication permit after the Malaysian Indian Congress (MIC),…
New York, August 24, 2007—The Committee to Protect Journalists is alarmed by reports that an Al-Jazeera cameraman held at the U.S. naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, for more than five years without charge is in failing health. Sami al-Haj, an assistant cameraman for Al-Jazeera who has been on hunger strike since January, has lost…
AUGUST 18, 2007 Posted September 7, 2007 Abdi Moalim Aden, Radio Hiraan Voice HARASSED Elmi Mohammed Waare, Radio Hiraan Voice Sawda Hussein, Radio Hiraan Voice IMPRISONED Authorities in the central Hiraan province capital of Beledweyne detained two reporters and an executive of private Radio Hiraan Voice over coverage of a press conference of Gov. Yusuf…