Case

AUGUST 17, 2007 Posted August 20, 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 16, 2007 Posted August 21, 2007 Local journalists CENSORED Wang Weijian, People’s Daily Hong Kefei, China Youth Daily Long Zhi, Southern Metropolitan Daily

AUGUST 14, 2007 Posted August 16, 2007 Leoncenis García, Reporte LEGAL ACTION On the afternoon of July 14, the Venezuelan Public Ministry announced in a statement that a Caracas court had issued an arrest warrant for García at its request. The statement said García, a reporter for the Caracas-based economic daily Reporte, was wanted for…

August 15, 2007 Posted August 24, 2007 Paul Kabanga Malumba, Radio Communautaire du Katanga IMPRISONED Malumba, the host of a popular morning civic education program on private station Radio Communautaire du Katanga in the mining city of Likasi in southern Katanga province, was summarily thrown into jail after a magistrate lured him into the prosecutor’s…

August 15, 2007 Posted August 24, 2007 Manolo Acosta, Zócalo Jesús Meza González, La Voz de Coahuila Alberto Rodríguez Reyes, Canal 4 Sinhé Samaniego Osoria, Zócalo

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.

AUGUST 10, 2007 Posted August 17, 2007 Nimo Hassan Abdi, Radio Shabelle Aideed Abdirahman, Radio Shabelle Cali Ajeey, Radio Shabelle Jafar Mohamed Kukay, RadioShabelle

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…