APRIL 17, 2007 Posted April 27, 2007 Cambio de Sonora ATTACKED Unidentified assailants in a moving vehicle tossed a grenade into a garden outside the offices of the Hermosillo-based daily Cambio de Sonora, causing minor damages to the building’s facade, according to press report and CPJ interviews.
APRIL 14, 2007 Posted June 26, 2007 Claudio Tiznado, Géneros THREATENED, ATTACKED Tiznado, an investigative reporter for the Hermosillo-based bimonthly publication Géneros, fled Mexico after two unidentified individuals beat him and warned him to stop writing.
April 4, 2007 Posted April 16, 2007 Samaresh Baidya, Bhorer Kagoj THREATENED Baidya has received death threats in a letter, several telephone calls, and text messages. Baidya said the threats could be linked to a three-year old article he wrote about High Court Justice Faisal Mahmud Faijee for the Bengali-language newspaper Bhorer Kagog. The article…
APRIL 4, 2007 Posted April 24, 2007 YouTube CENSORED Thailand’s Ministry of Information and Communications Technology ordered the Communications Authority of Thailand, which controls Thailand’s Internet gateway, to block access to the video-sharing Web site YouTube because of content it deemed offensive to the Thai monarchy. The entire site was blocked rather than the individual…
APRIL 2, 2007 Posted: April 6, 2007 Alexander John Perry, Time HARASSED, LEGAL ACTION A court in the southern town of Gwanda sentenced Perry, the Africa bureau chief of the European edition of the U.S. newsmagazine Time, to a fine of 100 Zimbabwean dollars (US$0.41) on charges of practicing journalism without accreditation and abusing journalistic…
MARCH 31, 2007 Posted: April 11, 2007 Celso Manguana, Canal de Mocambique IMPRISONED Manguana, a reporter of the private daily Canal de Mocambique, was arrested after he called officials at a police station in the capital Maputo “incompetent” for declining to comment on the detentions of several people in the aftermath of an anti-government demonstration,…
Updated: March 29, 2007 Original Case: September 17, 2004 Mauro Marcano, Radio Maturín, El Oriental KILLED On March 5, Venezuelan authorities arrested Ceferino García, believed to be the mastermind behind Marcano’s death, and accused him of premeditated murder, reported the local press. García is being held in Pica prison in the northern Monagas province.
MARCH 27, 2007 Posted April 27, 2007 Minyanya Wasso, Radio Liberté HARASSED Five armed police officers stormed the studios of private Radio Liberté in the far eastern Sud Kivu province, arresting a journalist airing a live program and causing the station to go off the air for 30 minutes, Director Philemon Kangeta told CPJ.
March 27, 2007 Posted: April 2, 2007 Daniyar Isanov, New TV Net (NTS) ATTACKED Four unidentified men approached Isanov, a news anchor for NTS, and asked him for a cigarette as the journalist was leaving the Kyrgyzfilm cinema in the Kyrgyz capital Bishkek at around 9 p.m., according to local press reports.