Posts Tagged ‘journalist’
October 30th, 2009
Maria de los Ángeles González Hernández, columnist at the newspaper “El Político” has reportedly received a number of anonymous death threats by email, allegedly from local labour leaders in Xalapa, Veracruz, southern Mexico.
On 22 October, the journalist said she had received seven emails with threats against her and her family. According to Gonzalez, the threats could arise from a newspaper column in which concerns the triumph of independent workers in a contest to represent employees in negotiating the collective agreement of the sugar factory Ingenio El Potrero, managing to defeat the main union of the country, the Confederation of Workers of Mexico (CTM).
May 29th, 2009
Cuban journalist Victor Rolando Arroyo is in his second week of hunger strike as a protest to lack of medical attention, bad sanitary conditions in his cell, his cruel treatment, and the fact that he has not been allowed to practice religion. Arroyo was sentenced in April 2003 to 26 years in prison for acting “against the independence or the territorial integrity of the state”. Read more
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April 21st, 2009
Iran’s judiciary spokesman has said that the eight-year jail term for Roxana Saberi may be reconsidered on appeal, an indication her sentence will be commuted. Read more
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April 18th, 2009
American-Iranian journalist Roxana Saberi has been sentenced to eight years’ imprisonment after being found guilty of spying for the US by a Tehran court.
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November 25th, 2008
Jagjit Saikia, district correspondent for the newspaper
Amar Asam, was killed by unknown assailants on 22 November in the town of Kokrajhar.
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November 14th, 2008
Vietnam’s journalists suffer when they dig too deep, writes Nick Caistor
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October 24th, 2008
Journalist Ivo Pukanic and marketing executive Niko Franjic have been killed in a car-bomb attack in the Croatian capital, Zagreb.
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October 14th, 2008
Diyar Abbas Ahmed, a reporter with private news agency Ain, was shot by unidentified gunmen in the northern city of Kirkuk on Friday.
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