MAY 29, 2007 Posted May 30, 2007 Mazhar Abbas, Agence France Presse Asif Hussain, Agence France Presse Zarrar Khan, Associated Press THREATENED Identical envelopes, each containing a 30mm bullet, were planted on cars belonging to the three journalists and parked outside the Karachi Press Club. They were discovered at around 10 p.m. Days before. the…
MAY 29, 2007 Posted May 31, 2007 Ricky Carandang, ABS-CBN network THREATENED Carandang said he received death threats via cell phone while in Lanao del Norte, a province in the Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao (ARMM). The threats came a day after he reported that officials in the provincial treasurer’s office in the provincial capital,…
MAY 28, 2007 Posted June 7, 2007 Anuska Buenaluque, América TV ATTACKED Buenaluque, Caracas correspondent for the weekly news program “Cuarto Poder” on the Limaóbased América TV, was shot at least 25 times with rubber bullets while covering a student protest against the closure of the Venezuelan television station Radio Caracas Televisión (RCTV), according to…
May 25, 2007 Gonzalo Guillén, El Nuevo Herald THREATENED An anonymous e-mail message was sent on May 25 to the offices of the Miami-based daily El Nuevo Herald, informing the paper that there was a plot to murder Guillén, the Herald’s Bogotá correspondent, the journalist told CPJ.
MAY 24, 2007 Orlando Rucana Cuba, Radio Melodía and Radio Alegría Manuel Caballero Vidal, Canal 13 TV THREATENED Rucana, director of the daily news programs on Radio Melodía and Radio Alegría, told CPJ that he received a text message on May 24 threatening him and a colleague with death.
MAY 22, 2006 Posted May 30, 2007 Nasrullah Afridi, Daily Mashriq THREATENED, ATTACKED Unidentified assailants lobbed two hand grenades at Afridi’s house in Bara, the main town of Khyber Agency in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas, damaging the surrounding wall and veranda. No one was injured in the attack.
MAY 22, 2007 Rocío Vásquez Goicochea, Investigando Chimbote LEGAL ACTION The Fifth Criminal Court of Lima convicted Vásquez, director of the weekly Investigando Chimbote in the northeastern Áncash region, of defamation, the journalist told CPJ. Vásquez was handed a one-year suspended prison sentence and ordered to pay 3,000 soles (US$900) as civil reparation to local…
MAY 21, 2007 Posted May 31, 2007 Aung Shwe Oo, Nippon News Network Sint Sint Aung,, Nippon News Network HARASSED The two journalists were detained on May 21 outside Rangoon while covering the docking of a North Korean ship suspected of delivering arms, according to a representative at the network’s Bangkok bureau. The representative spoke…