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MARCH 21, 2008 Posted April 22, 2008 Javier Montes Camarena, El Diario de Colima ATTACKED Unidentified individuals fired several shots at Montes’ home in Manzanillo, a city in the western Mexican state of Colima. The journalist told CPJ that he believes the attack was retaliation for his criticism of the local government in the daily…

MARCH 21, 2008 Posted March 24, 2008 Arifur Rahman, Prothom Alo RELEASED Arifur Rahman was freed from Dhaka Central Jail after the police officer who had filed a case against him failed to appear in court hearings because he was in East Timor, The Associated Press reported.

MARCH 14, 2008 Posted April 22, 2008 Croissance Saine Environnement CENSORED Gabon’s state-run National Communications Council indefinitely suspended Croissance Saine Environnement, a monthly newspaper published by a local environmental advocacy group of the same name, in connection with a series of stories critical of a government official, according to news reports and local journalists.

FEBRUARY 18, 2008 Posted March 10, 2008 Elvira Lobato, Folha de S. Paulo LEGAL ACTION, HARASSED At least 54 individual members of a Brazilian church have filed civil defamation suits in different cities across the country against the national daily Folha de S. Paulo and Lobato, its business reporter. The plaintiffs claim the reporter and…

UPDATE MARCH 5, 2008 Posted March 28, 2008 Original case: February 25, 2008 Gabriel Huge Córdoba, Notiver

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…

MARCH 2008 Posted March 12, 2008 “Toronto 17” LEGAL Several news organizations have asked a Canadian appeals court to overturn a publication, broadcast, and Internet ban imposed on the ongoing bail hearings of 17 suspects accused of alleged terrorist activities concerning the Canadian capital of Toronto. Authorities announced the arrest of the suspects, since known…

FEBRUARY 5, 2008 Posted February 29, 2008 Ibrahim Souley, L’Enqueteur Soumana Idrissa Maiga, Director of L’Enqueteur LEGAL The editor and managing director of L’Enqueteur were each sentenced to one month in jail and a CFA 40,000 (US$90) fine by a Niamey court on February 5 for defamation charges made by the minister of finance and…

FEBRUARY 29, 2008 Posted March 5, 2008 ABS-CBN Television CENSORED An ABS-CBN helicopter seeking aerial views of a rally against President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo was prevented from approaching the area by an Air Transportation Office (ATO) notice declaring the area a no-fly zone for the three-hour duration of the protest, according to a local press…

Newspaper director imprisoned over critical editorials FEBRUARY 26, 2008 Posted March 14, 2008   Aboubacar Gourouza, L’Eveil Plus IMPRISONED, LEGAL Police in the capital, Niamey, arrested Aboubacar Gourouza, director of the bimonthly L’Eveil Plus, and took him into custody over two separate complaints triggered by critical editorials published on January 29, according to news reports…