August 25, 2006 Posted: September 25, 2006 Adonis Pallikarides, Sigma TV Nikitas Dalitis, Sigma TV IMPRISONED Police in northern Cyprus arrested reporter Pallikarides and cameraman Dalitis of the private television network, Sigma TV, who were interviewing Turkish Cypriot shopkeepers on Ledra Street in the capital Nicosia, local and international press reported.
AUGUST 22, 2006 Posted: August 25, 2006 Luis Alberto Cruz, Milenio Jorge Luis Plata, Reforma ATTACKED In the early morning, a group of heavily armed, unidentified individuals, traveling through the southeastern city of Oaxaca in a convoy of at least 30 cars shot at a group of antigovernment protesters and at Cruz and Plata, two…
AUGUST 11, 2006 Posted: August 25, 2006 Radio Istiqlal ATTACKED Although the station in the province of Loghar south of Kabul did not receive any threats before the attack, police confirmed that a “night letter”—an anonymous warning posted on walls and distributed by hand—appeared in the town a few days before.
AUGUST 8, 2006 Posted August 21, 2006 Oscar Rodríguez, Milenio ATTACKED Rodríguez, the Oaxaca correspondent for the Mexico City-based daily Milenio, was attacked by a group of protesters while reporting on the abduction of two police officers in the city of San Bartolo de Coyotepec.
MAY-JULY 2006 Smolensk CENSORED Vladimir Korenev HARASSED, LEGAL ACTION Copies of the May edition of the monthly magazine Smolensk in the central Russian city of Smolensk were withheld by printer, Mikhailov Print Factory. The issue carried an article by magazine co-founder and Member of Parliament Viktor Drenkovsky criticizing Smolensk Gov. Viktor Maslov’s economic policies.
July 31, 2006 Posted: August 25, 2006 Fakt i Kompromat HARASSED, LEGAL ACTION Seven federal prison guards filed a civil defamation suit against the weekly opposition newspaper Fakt i Kompromat in the southern Russian city of Astrakhan. The paper recently published two articles titled, “Who manages the prisons and jails of Astrakhan?” and “The truth…
July 31, 2006 Posted: August 25, 2006 Ivan Kudryavtsev, Listok ATTACKED Kudryavtsev was attacked by Sergei Grechushnikov, head of the Ust-Koksinsky municipality, in Altai Republic, southern Siberia. Kudryavtsev, a photojournalist for the independent weekly newspaper Listok, started to photograph Grechushnikov as he entered the local courthouse, where Grechushnikov was to appear as the plaintiff in…