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JUNE 29, 2005 Posted: August 9, 2005 Juan Carlos Neida, El Nuevo País ATTACKED Neida, a photographer with the Caracas-based daily El Nuevo País, was beaten and abducted by unidentified attackers while he was on assignment.

New York, June 29, 2005—The Committee to Protect Journalists today expressed alarm at reports that three Iraqi journalists were killed this week by U.S. forces’ fire in Iraq. CPJ is investigating the circumstances, and it called on U.S. military authorities to provide further information about each case. Ahmed Wael Bakri, a director and news producer…

JUNE 28, 2005 Posted: June 30, 2005 Befekadu Moreda, Tomar Zelalem Gebre, Menilik Dawit Fassil, Asqual Tamrat Serbesa, Satenaw HARASSED, LEGAL ACTION Police arrested four editors of private Amharic-language newspapers in Ethiopia’s capital, Addis Ababa, CPJ sources said. The editors were charged with defaming the military, Ethiopian officials confirmed to Agence France-Presse (AFP) and Reuters.

JUNE 28, 2005 Posted: July 18, 2005 Nazneen Akhter, Janakantha Journalists at Jugantor, Ittefaq and Prothom Alo THREATENED Janakantha reported that Nazneen Akhter, a reporter for the newspaper in Dhaka, had been threatened after her coverage of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) activities at a women’s college. JCD is the ruling party’s student wing.

JUNE 28, 2005 Posted: July 18, 2005 Shafiqul Islam, Janakantha ATTACKED Four men identified as cadres of Jagrata Muslim Janata Bangladesh (JMJB), an outlawed Islamic militant group headed by Bangla Bhai, attacked Shafiqul on his way to the Bagmara Press Club in Rajshahi, according to The Daily Star. Shafiqul is a Janakantha correspondent who had…

JUNE 28, 2005 Posted: July 5, 2005 Ahmed Wael Bakri, Al-Sharqiyah KILLED—CONFIRMED Bakri, a director and news producer for the local television station, Al-Sharqiyah, was killed by gunfire as he approached U.S. troops, according to Ali Hanoon, a station director. Hanoon said Bakri was driving from work to his in-laws’ home in southern Baghdad at…

JUNE 28, 2005 Posted: July 1, 2005 Magomedzagid Varisov, Novoye Delo KILLED—CONFIRMED Machine-gun toting assailants opened fire on Varisov’s sedan at around 9 p.m. as he was returning home with his wife and driver. Varisov sustained multiple bullet wounds and died at the scene. His wife was not injured; the driver was hospitalized with injuries,…

JUNE 28, 2005 Posted: July 7, 2005 Nikolai Kochurov, Severodvinsky Rabochy ATTACKED Kochurov, editor-in-chief of Severodvinsk’s independent newspaper, Severodvinsky Rabochy, was beaten by two unidentified assailants and hospitalized with head and arm injuries. Assailants waiting in the entry to Kochurov’s apartment building struck him with a heavy object as the journalist left for work that…

Your Excellencies, We, the undersigned local and international press freedom and human rights organizations, call for the immediate release from prison of Abdi Farah Nur, editor of the weekly newspaper Shacab in Somalia’s self-declared autonomous region of Puntland. Local journalists believe his detention is linked to critical articles in Shacab about the Puntland leadership and Somalia’s Transitional Federal Government (TFG).