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).
AUGUST 1, 2007 Posted August 29, 2007 Sahadevan Nilakshan, Chaalaram, August 1, 2007, Jaffna KILLED Nilakshan, a 22-year-old journalism student and editor of the student-run Chaalaram magazine, was assassinated by unidentified gunmen at his home on the outskirts of Jaffna, at around 4 a.m. The shooting occurred during curfew hours in an area heavily guarded…
JULY 18, 2007 Rogério Cassimiro, Folha de São Paulo DETAINED, ATTACKED São Paulo police brutally detained Cassimiro, a photojournalist for the daily Folha de São Paulo, and held him for five hours after he photographed the scene a plane crash that occurred the day before.
MAY 7, 2007 Posted May 16, 2007 Lydia Cacho Ribeiro, freelance journalist HARASSED Shortly after arriving in Mexico City, the driver of a vehicle transporting journalist and human rights activist Lydia Cacho Ribeiro lost control of the car, according to news reports and CPJ interviews. Federal agents detected that screws had been loosened on one…
JULY 4, 2007 Posted September 25, 2007 Kamran Mir Hazar—Salaam Watandar, KabulPress DETAINED, HARASSED, THREATENED Mir Hazar, Web master and journalist for the national radio news program Salaam Watandar and chief editor of the Web site KabulPress, was detained twice by Afghan secret police, put under surveillance, and warned not to continue writing articles criticizing…