JULY 4, 2007 Posted July 17, 2007 China Development Brief CENSORED Beijing authorities ordered publishers of the Chinese edition of China Development Brief to cease publication, and they barred employees from maintaining the newsletter’s English language Web site, according to its British founder and editor, Nick Young. China Development Brief, a monthly founded in 1996,…
UPDATE JUNE 28, 2007 Thabo Thakalenkoala, Harvest FM IMPRISONED Chief Magistrate Molefi Makara reduced an initial charge of high treason against Thabo Thakalenkoala and allowed the radio journalist to be released on US$140 bail. The treason charge carried a possible death penalty. The new charge is subject to a prison sentence of up to 20…
JUNE 28, 2007 Posted July 17, 2007 Charles Kabonero, Umuseso Gasana Didas, Umuseso HARASSED Director Kabonero and editor Didas, of the leading independent newspaper Umuseso, were interrogated for three hours in a police station in the capital, Kigali, local journalists told CPJ. They were pressed to reveal their sources in connection with three articles reporting…
JUNE 28, 2006 Posted August 10, 2007 Abdirahman Muse Omar, Somaliland Television IMPRISONED Omar, a news editor for private broadcaster Somaliland Television in the northern breakaway republic of Somaliland, was assaulted on June 28 by Mayor Hussein Muhammud Jiir after seeking official comments about the police’s expulsion of a family and the destruction of their…
JUNE 27, 2007 EventsCENSORED Fifteen armed men stormed the printing plant of the private weekly Events in the capital city of Uyo and seized about 5,000 copies of the newspaper, according to local journalists and news reports. The attack occurred in the morning, just before the distribution and sale of the paper, publisher Jerome Imeime…
June 27, 2007 Manuel Santiago Pérez, El Universal ATTACKED Pérez, a photojournalist for the Sincelejo-based daily El Universal, was attacked by five police officers while covering a taxi drivers’ protest in northwestern Sucre province, the photojournalist told CPJ.
JUNE 27, 2007 Lydia Cacho Ribeiro, freelance journalist LEGAL ACTION The Mexican Supreme Court of Justice declared on June 26 that there is enough evidence to prosecute high-ranking government officials on allegations of violating Cacho’s human rights when they plotted to arrest and assault the Mexican freelance journalist in December 2005. The high court said…
JUNE 27, 2007 Posted July 17, 2007 Roger Santodomingo, Noticiero Digital THREATENED Santodomingo, director of the Internet news site Noticiero Digital, resigned from his post after his 9-year old son was handed a threatening letter at school that accused the journalist of working for the U.S. government and against Venezuela, according to CPJ interviews and…
June 26, 2007 Freddy Barros, Ecuavisa Germán Picho, Ecuavisa Sergio Quiñaluisa, Ecuavisa Marcelo Orellana, Ecuavisa HARASSED, EXPELLED Reporters Barros and Orellana, cameraman Quiñaluisa, and assistant Picho of the Quito-based television station Ecuavisa were detained on the Colombian border with Ecuador and held for more than 10 hours before being deported, according to international press reports.…