October 28, 2007 Posted November 7, 2007 Raza Mehmood Agha, producer Aaj TV Khalid Jameel, reporter Aaj TV ATTACKED The two men were injured by shrapnel when a rocket landed close to where they were filming clashes between Pakistan’s security forces and Islamic militants, near the town of Mingora, in the Swat district of the…
October 26, 2007 Posted November 2, 2007 Ricardo Zarco, Cadena 3 THREATENED, HARASSED Zarco, a 36-year-old freelance cameraman and producer for the Mexico City-based television network Cadena 3, was threatened and robbed while on his way home from work in Morelia, the capital of the central state of Michoacán.
Your Excellency, The Committee to Protect Journalists is deeply concerned that one year after the death of journalist Bradley Roland Will nobody has been brought to justice. Further, we are troubled by the absence of a serious murder investigation and the lack of official response to witness reports and photographs from the murder scene that identify several armed men shooting into the crowd where Will was present.
New York, October 26, 2007—A Bangladeshi journalist arrested Tuesday has been beaten in jail, his wife told the Committee to Protect Journalists. Jahangir Alam Akash was arrested at his home in Rajshahi on extortion charges. Akash was taken to the prison hospital on Thursday with leg injuries, his wife told local journalist Shahriar Kabir and…
OCTOBER 25, 2007 Posted December 7, 2007 Borman Mármol, La Prensa Gráfica Alex Nolasco, Canal 21 ATTACKED During a clash between protesters and local police near the western city of Santa Ana, Mármol, a photographer for the San Salvador-based daily La Prensa Gráfica,and Nolasco, a reporter for the national TV station Canal 21, were attacked…
OCTOBER 25, 2007 Posted December 7, 2007 Paulina Moreno, Ávila TV ATTACKED Moreno, a reporter for the government-owned Ávila TV, was injured during an explosion at a debate in Caracas on the constitutional reforms proposed by President Hugo Chávez Frías.
Dear President Bush: In advance of your meeting with the President of the Democratic Republic of Congo, President Joseph Kabila, the Committee to Protect Journalists would like to draw your attention to the acute problem of impunity in cases of violence against media workers. CPJ is an independent, nonprofit organization dedicated to defending press freedom worldwide.
Your Excellency, The Committee to Protect Journalists urges you to use all of the resources of your office to ensure that a thorough, timely, independent, and transparent investigation is undertaken into the slaying of prominent journalist Alisher Saipov, who was shot in southern Kyrgyzstan on Wednesday.
New York, October 25, 2007—A Congolese government minister invited two television journalists to his office in the capital, Kinshasa, and then ordered police to beat them when they arrived, according to news reports and local press freedom group Journaliste en Danger. The incident came on the heels of a government decree summarily banning 38 private…
New York, October 25, 2007—The Committee to Protect Journalists is concerned for the safety of detained journalist Qi Chonghuai, who was beaten by police while in custody, according to his wife. Qi has been detained at the Tengzhou Detention Center in the eastern province of Shandong since June 25 when police took him from his…