UPDATE May 6, 2008 Original alert: February 5, 2008Radio France InternationaleCENSOREDIvory Coast’s National Broadcasting Council lifted a ban in place since February 1 on the FM broadcasts of France-based Radio France Internationale (RFI), through a public statement released to the media. The ruling was made as a result of the arrival of a permanent correspondent…
APRIL 29, 2008 Posted May 5, 2008 Paul Rafael, Steve Dupont, Smithsonian Magazine ATTACKED Rafael, a freelance writer, and photographer Dupont, both from Australia, were on assignment for the U.S.-based Smithsonian Magazine when a suicide bomber detonated a bomb a few meters from where they stood as part of a crowd in a small eastern…
APRIL 25, 2008 Posted May 21, 2008 Claude Ada Mboula, Télé Africa ATTACKED Mboula, a cameraman with private broadcaster Télé Africa was assaulted by police officers while filming an anti-government march against price hikes in the capital Libreville, according to news reports and local journalists.
APRIL 1, 2008 Posted May 5, 2008 Paúl Garay Ramírez, Del Pueblo HARASSED Two unidentified men attempted to kidnap Garay, director of the local weekly El Pueblo, on April 1 in Pucallpa in the eastern province of Ucayali, the journalist told CPJ. Since then, unknown individuals have visited his home, as well as his mother…
MARCH 3, 2008 Posted March 28, 2008 Jacques Blaise Mvié, La Nouvelle PresseKIDNAPPED Director Jacques Blaise Mvié of the private weekly La Nouvelle Presse told CPJ an unidentified man in plain clothes jumped from a gray Toyota Prado 4 x 4 and forced him at gunpoint in the car as he was walking away from…
Investigative reporter arrested after exposing police corruption MARCH 28, 2008 Posted April 25, 2008 Rabiul Islam, Daily Sunshine ARRESTED, HARRASSED Rabiul told CPJ he was arrested without warrant and detained by police, who accused him of committing robbery in Rajshahi. Rabiul, a journalist for the Daily Sunshine, a Rajshahi-based local newspaper in the Bangla Language,…
MARCH 24, 2008 Posted April 22, 2008 Tribuna das Águas LEGAL ACTION On March 24, a civil court in Águas de Lindóia, a city in the southeastern state of São Paulo, banned the local weekly Tribuna das Águas from publishing the names of government officials under penalty of a large fine, according to press reports…
UPDATE MARCH 5, 2008 Posted March 24, 2008 Original Case: February 10, 2004 Carlos José Guadamuz, Canal 23 KILLED William Hurtado García, who confessed to the 2004 murder of Canal 23 television host Guadamuz, was conditionally released from prison, the Nicaraguan press reported on March 5. Hurtado had been sentenced to a 21-year prison sentence…
UPDATE MARCH 5, 2008 Posted March 24, 2008 Original Case: February 10, 2004 Carlos José Guadamuz, Canal 23 KILLED William Hurtado García, who confessed to the 2004 murder of Canal 23 television host Guadamuz, was conditionally released from prison, the Nicaraguan press reported on March 5. Hurtado had been sentenced to a 21-year prison sentence…