2006

SANA’A, Yemen — Newspaper editor Jamal Amer arrived home just before dawn last August 23 after closing the latest edition of his independent weekly, Al-Wasat. A shout pierced the morning calm as Amer got out of his car, and, within moments, a man in a military jacket and traditional head scarf bundled the editor into…

By Carlos Lauria and Sauro Gonzalez Rodriguez 

AFGHANISTAN: 1 Ali Mohaqqiq Nasab, Haqooq-i-Zan (Women’s Rights) Imprisoned: October 1, 2005 The attorney general ordered editor Nasab’s arrest on blasphemy charges after the religious adviser to President Hamid Karzai, Mohaiuddin Baluch, filed a complaint about his magazine. “I took the two magazines and spoke to the Supreme Court chief, who wrote to the attorney…

Pictures from the 2006 International Press Freedom Awards Dinner Waldorf-Astoria, November 2006 Photographs by Barbara Nitke

13 Confirmed cases of journalists killed in Iraq by U.S. Forces (March 2003-August 2005)

Death toll is 47 worldwide; Iraq becomes deadliest recent conflict

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