Journalists held over story on president’s son
September 15, 2006 Posted: September 22, 2006 Virgil Linkpon, La Diaspora de Sabbat Fulric Richard Couao-Zotti, La Diaspora de Sabbat IMPRISONED Linkpon and Couao-Zotti, respectively managing editor and editor of the private weekly La Diaspora de Sabbat, were arrested in connection with a story about the president’s family, according to CPJ sources in the capital…
Reporter detained for two days
SEPTEMBER 15, 2005 Posted: September 22, 2006 Ahmed Rodríguez Albacia, Jóvenes sin censura DETAINED Rodríguez, an independent reporter for the news agency Jóvenes sin censura, was detained by police in Havana while reporting on the situation of a human rights activist. No charges were filed against Rodríguez, who was released on September 17.
Documentary crew attacked by Mexico City police
SEPTEMBER 15, 2006 Posted: October 13, 2006 Miguel Angel Fuentes Cortina, Canal 6 de julio Juan Pablo Ramos Jiménez, Canal 6 de julio Mario Viveros Barragán, Canal 6 de julio ATTACKED A group of Mexico City police officers attacked Viveros, Ramos, and Fuentes, a documentary producer and two cameramen, while they were filming the violent…
Appeals court upholds jail sentence of Kurdish journalist
New York, September 15, 2006—The Committee to Protect Journalists is alarmed by the ruling of an Iranian appeals court upholding a one-year prison sentence against Kurdish journalist and human rights activist Mohammad Sadiq Kabudvand. The court of appeals in the northwestern province of Kurdistan ordered him to serve the suspended jail term, the semiofficial Iranian…
After five years, Eritrean journalists still jailed in secret prisons without due process
New York, September 15, 2006—Five years after Eritrea’s brutal crackdown on the independent press, the Committee to Protect Journalists today called for the release of 13 journalists held incommunicado in secret jails and two other journalists forced into extended military service. Basic information about the jailed journalists—most of whom were swept up in a September…
Jailed state TV journalist freed without charge and fired
New York, September 15, 2006—A state television reporter jailed secretly for almost a week was released without charge on Thursday but learned that he had been fired from his job, according to CPJ sources. Dodou Sanneh, a senior TV producer with Gambia Radio and Television Services (GRTS), was arrested on September 8 after covering an…
A third journalist is sentenced to prison
New York, September 15, 2006—A court in Niger’s capital, Niamey, today sentenced journalist Salif Dago to six months in prison for publishing “false information,” according to local sources contacted by the Committee to Protect Journalists. Dago, a reporter for the private newspaper L’Enquêteur, is the third journalist to be sentenced to jail for his work…
Pakistan: Reporter killed by masked gunmen
New York, September 15, 2006—The Committee to Protect Journalists called today on Pakistani authorities to conduct a thorough and timely investigation into the shooting death of journalist Maqbool Hussain Sail. Two masked gunmen on a motorcycle shot Sail late Thursday in Dera Ismail Khan, 175 miles (280 kilometers) southwest of Islamabad, according to the Rural…
Authorities intensify newspaper censorship and seizures
New York, September 14, 2006—The Committee to Protect Journalists is alarmed by increasing censorship of opposition and independent newspapers in Sudan. The press climate in the country has deteriorated in recent months against a backdrop of continuing ethnic killings in the western region of Darfur, and growing political unrest and protests over price rises.
Singapore: Leaders again resort to lawsuits to muzzle press critics
New York, September 14, 2006— The Committee to Protect Journalists denounces the defamation suit brought by the Singapore leadership against the publisher and editor of the Far Eastern Economic Review over an article about an opposition politician in the tightly controlled city-state. Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and his father, former premier turned Minister Mentor,…