Opposition photojournalist dies
New York, June 22, 2005—The Committee to Protect Journalists is deeply saddened by the death on Sunday of Alim Kazimli, photo correspondent for the Baku-based opposition newspaper Yeni Musavat (New Equality). Despite a lengthy hospital stay and home medical treatment for a December 2004 stroke that left him partially paralyzed, the 51-year-old Kazimli died several…
BRAZIL
JUNE 21, 2005 Posted: July 22, 2005 Gilmário Batista, TV Globo Lúcio Sturm, TV Globo Marçal Araújo, TV Globo ATTACKED Three men attacked a news crew from television station TV Globo. The news crew was working on a news report in front of the headquarters of the ruling Workers Party (PT) in the city of…
Internet journalist tried on subversion charges
New York, June 21, 2005—Freelance Internet journalist and dissident Zhang Lin pleaded not guilty to charges of inciting subversion of state authority at his trial today at the Intermediate People’s Court of Bengbu in central China’s Anhui Province. Today’s trial concluded within five hours, defense lawyer Mo Shaoping told the Committee to Protect Journalists. The…
Al-Arabiya correspondent seriously injured in shooting
New York, June 21, 2005—The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns Saturday’s shooting in Baghdad of Jawad Kadhem, an Iraqi correspondent for the Dubai-based satellite channel Al-Arabiya. Kadhem was seriously injured in the attack, which was believed to be the work of insurgents. Najib Bencherif, Al-Arabiya’s head of correspondents in Dubai, told CPJ that the shooting…
Drug cartel behind Mexican journalist’s slaying, prosecutor tells CPJ
Mexico City, June 21, 2005—A top Mexican prosecutor told a delegation from the Committee to Protect Journalists today that the Arellano Félix drug cartel was behind the slaying of a well-known Tijuana journalist nearly one year ago, and federal authorities have rounded up more than 100 people as part of a broad crackdown against the…
NIGERIA
JUNE 20, 2005 Posted: June 30, 2005 Nigerian Union of Journalists Segun Omolehin, Nigerian Union of Journalists Wole Ayodele, VanguardIsiaka Oyibo, The Daily Times HARASSED Police officers in Nigeria’s central Kogi State occupied the local chapter of the Nigerian Union of Journalists (NUJ), harassed local journalists, and detained the local union chairman, according to local…
CPJ urges Bush to press for release of Vietnamese journalists
In advance of your June 21 meeting with Vietnamese Prime Minister Phan Van Khai, the Committee to Protect Journalists is writing to call your attention to the imprisonment of Vietnamese writers Pham Hong Son, Nguyen Khac Toan, and Nguyen Vu Binh for their journalistic work.
Puntland editor jailed after resuming publication
New York, June 20, 2005—Authorities in the autonomous Puntland region of northeast Somalia arrested Abdi Farah Nur, editor of the weekly Shacab (Voice of the People), after the newspaper resumed publication yesterday in defiance of an indefinite government suspension. Farah was being held without charge in a Garowe jail today, Shacab General Manager Abdirahman Abdulle…