SEPTEMBER 15, 2006 Posted: October 13, 2006 Miguel Angel Fuentes Cortina, Canal 6 de julio Juan Pablo Ramos Jiménez, Canal 6 de julio Mario Viveros Barragán, Canal 6 de julio ATTACKED A group of Mexico City police officers attacked Viveros, Ramos, and Fuentes, a documentary producer and two cameramen, while they were filming the violent…
September 13, 2006 Posted: September 22, 2006 Michael Saburi, Reuters Television ASSAULTED, IMPRISONED Saburi, a freelance cameraman for Reuters TV, was assaulted by police officers and jailed for filming a banned trade union march in the capital Harare, according to the Media Institute of Southern Africa, and his lawyer.
September 12, 2006 Posted: September 22, 2006 Seydou Coulibaly, Le Jour Plus Edouard Gonto, Le Jour Plus Frédéric Koffi, Le Jour Plus HARASSED, LEGAL ACTION Coulibaly and Gonto were summoned on September 12 and detained overnight over a September 11 article titled “Toxic waste: Mrs. Gbagbo at the heart of the scandal,” according to Patrice…
September 6, 2006 Posted: October 13, 2006 Ovannes Galagzhyan, Iravunk ATTACKED Two unidentified men attacked Galagzhyan, editor-in-chief of Armenia’s top-selling opposition weekly Iravunk, in the courtyard of his apartment building on Komitas Street in the capital city of Yerevan. The two men, both with shaved heads, strong builds, and about 40 years of age, threw…
SEPTEMBER 5, 2006 Posted: September 21, 2006 Eugenia Cicero, PM Jaime Murrieta Briones, El Diario Aurelio Suárez Núñez, PM ATTACKED Reporter Cicero and photographer Suárez, of the Ciudad de Juárez-based daily PM, and Murrieta, a photographer for the local daily El Diario, were attacked while trying to photograph a group of at least 20 armed…
September 3, 2006 Posted: September 13, 2006 Duke Atangana Etotogo, Afrique Centrale IMPRISONED Etotogo, director of the new private monthly magazine Afrique Centrale, was arrested by the Division of Military Security (SEMIL) of the defense ministry in the capital Yaoundé after publishing an article criticizing the army.
August 28, 2006 Original Alert: May 2, 2006 Viktor Shmakov, Provintsialnye Vesti LEGAL ACTION The regional prosecutor in the republic of Bashkortostan charged Shmakov, 63, founder and editor-in-chief of the opposition newspaper Provintsialnye Vesti (Provincial News), with the lesser charge of “calling for insubordination to legal authorities.”