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JULY 2005 Posted: August 18, 2005 Matichon, Prachachart Tooragit LEGAL ACTION A Thai company with ties to a former government official filed criminal defamation complaints seeking massive damages from two daily newspapers owned by the Matichon media company.

JULY 1, 2005 Posted July 18, 2005 Khaled al-Attar, Al-Iraqiya, Mosul KILLED–CONFIRMED Al-Attar, an Iraqi television producer for the state news channel Al-Iraqiya, was killed in Mosul after being kidnapped earlier in the day.

JANUARY 11, 2005 Posted: February 2, 2005 Giovanna Rodríguez Castro, Bolivisión David Zagardia Muños, Bolivisión HARASSED, THREATENED Rodríguez and Zagardia, members of a news team from TV channel Bolivisión, were harassed and threatened while covering developments during the first day of 48-hour antigovernment protests in the southeastern city of Santa Cruz.

JANUARY 11, 2005 Updated: September 2, 2005 Julio Hernando Palacios Sánchez, Radio Lemas KILLED—CONFIRMED Two armed motorcyclists shot Palacios, 55, a veteran radio news host, as he drove to work around 5:30 a.m. in the city of Cúcuta, in the unstable northeastern region near the Venezuelan border.

JANUARY 11, 2005 Posted: January 27, 2005 ABS-CBN News ATTACKED A group of armed men torched an ABS-CBN News van in central Manila at around 4:30 a.m. Between five and eight masked gunmen forced members of the eight-person news crew to lie on the ground while they set the van on fire with a Molotov…

New York, January 11, 2005—Gunmen shot and killed a veteran Colombian radio news host early this morning in the city of Cúcuta, in the unstable northeastern region near the Venezuelan border. The Committee to Protect Journalists is investigating the murder to determine whether it was related to his journalism. Two armed motorcyclists shot Julio Hernando…

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JANUARY 10, 2005 Updated: February 15, 2005 Jules Koum Koum, Le Jeune Observateur LEGAL ACTION, IMPRISONED Jules Koum Koum, publication director of the private bimonthly Le Jeune Observateur, was sentenced to six months in prison for allegedly defaming the CPA insurance company in an article published in February 2004.

New York, January 10, 2005—The Committee to Protect Journalists is concerned by the disappearance in Iraq of French journalist Florence Aubenas, who was last seen in Baghdad on January 5 with her Iraqi translator, Hussein al-Saad. According to press reports, Aubenas, who was in Iraq working for the French daily Libération, has not been heard…