IRAQ
APRIL 5, 2005 Posted: April 7, 2005 Unidentified journalist, CBS News ATTACKED An Iraqi freelance journalist working for CBS News was wounded by U.S. fire in the northern city of Mosul. Troops from the 1st Brigade, 25th Infantry Division, mistook the journalist’s camera for a weapon, the U.S.-led Multi-National Forces in Iraq said in a…
IRAQ
APRIL 5, 2005 Posted October 18, 2005 Abdul Ameer Younis Hussein, CBS News IMPRISONED Hussein, an Iraqi cameraman working for CBS News, was taken into custody after being wounded by U.S. forces’ fire on April 5 while he filmed clashes in Mosul in northern Iraq. CBS News reported at the time that the U.S. military…
Judge acquits editor of criminal charges and creates new interpretation for media law
New York, April 5, 2005—The managing editor of the Nairobi-based East African Standard’s Sunday edition was acquitted of criminal charges yesterday. The charges against David Makali, pending since 2003, stemmed from an investigative article about the alleged murder of Dr. Crispin Odhiambo Mbai, a key player in Kenya’s constitutional reform process. Nairobi Chief Magistrate Aggrey…
Ukrainian prosecutor claims confessions in Gongadze case
New York, April 5, 2005—Ukraine’s prosecutor-general said yesterday that two former police officers arrested in March as suspects in the 2000 murder of Internet journalist Georgy Gongadze have confessed to the killing, according to local and international press reports. Vyacheslav Astapov, a spokesman for the prosecutor’s office, said the officers were cooperating with investigators in…
DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO
APRIL 4, 2005 Posted: April 13, 2005 Journaliste en Danger (JED) THREATENED Tshivis Tshivuadi, secretary-general of the Kinshasa-based press freedom organization Journaliste en Danger, received an email containing death threats against him and Donat M’baya Tshimanga, JED’s president, and their families. The threats sparked concern amongst JED staff as well as local media organizations.
HAITI
APRIL 4, 2005 Posted: April 8, 2005 Robenson Laraque, Tele Contact KILLED—CONFIRMED Laraque, a reporter with the private radio station Tele Contact, died in a Cuban hospital from injuries suffered while observing a March 20 clash between UN troops and members of the disbanded Haitian military in the city of Petit-Goâve. The confrontation began after…
NEPAL
APRIL 4, 2005 Posted: April 7, 2005 Prabhakar Ghimire, Kantipur Narayan Sharma, Kantipur Khuman Singh Tamang, Kantipur HARASSED, THREATENED The three reporters for Kantipur, the country’s largest circulation Nepali-language daily, were called in for questioning by police in the southern city of Chitwan after their April 3 article, citing unnamed police sources, described the torching…
CPJ protests prosecution of former nuclear technician
Your Excellency: The Committee to Protect Journalists is writing to express deep concern about the case of Mordechai Vanunu, a former Israeli nuclear technician recently charged with violating government restrictions that bar him from speaking with the foreign press. These punitive measures against Vanunu threaten freedom of the press by inhibiting news coverage of an issue of vital concern.
New judge named in the Dominique case; CPJ urges government to revive the investigation
New York, April 4, 2005—The Committee to Protect Journalists urged Haitian transitional authorities today to revive the stalled investigation into the murder of Jean-Léopold Dominique, one of the country’s most renowned journalists. Last Thursday, Haiti’s Minister of Justice Bernard Gousse announced the nomination of a new examining judge, Jean Perez Paul, who will conduct the…