Posts Tagged ‘journalist’
April 26th, 2010
A video
released last week demands a Taliban leader be set free in exchange for the safety of Asad Qureshi, a British journalist ,and two retired ISI officers. The
missing men left for the North Waziristan region at the end of March. A second
video featuring one of the captured the ex-ISI officers, Colonel Khalid Khawaja, was also sent to Asia Times Online. In it, Khawaja details his involvement in negotiations between militants and the army, as well as his part in the arrest of
Muhammad Abdul Aziz during the
Siege of Lal Masjid in 2007.
April 14th, 2010
On 11 April,
Luis Antonio Chévez, host of a musical programme on
Radio W105, was shot to death in the country’s business capital
San Pedro Sula. His cousin, 20, was also killed in the incident. The motive for the killings is unknown, but police have ruled out a robbery, given that a silver bracelet and a “considerable amount of cash” were found among the victims’ belongings. Chévez is the sixth media worker assassinated in Honduras in the last two months.
April 13th, 2010
A Japanese cameraman for Reuters,
Hiro Muramoto, was fatally shot in the chest whilst covering protests in Bangkok on 10 April. It is not apparent which side was responsible for the shooting, as Thai police used
rubber bullets, tear gas and fired live ammunition into the air,
whilst red shirt protesters were also accused of firing live rounds and grenades. The
Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs have issued a statement calling for an independent investigation of Muramoto’s death.
April 9th, 2010
A British filmmaker is missing in Northern Waziristan,
Asad Qureshi is one of the group of men who have vanished in the mountainous tribal region on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border. On 26 March, two former ISI agents set off with Qureshi and another British filmmaker to conduct interviews with Taliban leaders. No other reports have surfaced regarding their whereabouts but a
Pakistani army spokesperson has confirmed that they have not been detained by any intelligence agencies.
April 6th, 2010
Kosuke Tsuneoka, a freelance Japanese journalist who has been
missing since March 31, has been found imprisoned in the province of Baghlan,
according to a local Afghan reporter on Sunday. The Afghan authorities say that they were not aware of
Tsuneoka’s presence in the country until his disappearance received publicity, it has been suggested he did not have the right visa/accreditation.
March 31st, 2010
On 25 March, journalist
Gustavo Azocar, host of “Café con Azócar,” a news and political commentary of
Televisora del Táchira,
was sentenced to two years and six months imprisonment for illegal profiting in acts of public administration. Judge José Hernán Oliveros found the journalist
guilty of fraud in the signing of a 2000 advertising contract between the state lottery and Radio Noticias 106, where he was working at the time. Azocar, an outspoken critic of Chavez’s government, was released from prison, where
he had been held since July 2009, and he will be able to serve his sentence on probation.
March 23rd, 2010
Belarus’s Supreme Court has stripped the Belarusian Association of Journalist’s (BAJ)
ability to offer protection to journalists who are not officially authorised, such as opposition newspapers, websites and foreign news outlets.These journalists could now face 15 days in jail. BAJ president Zhanna Litvina said yesterday that this will discourage independent media coverage in the run-up to the elections. This comes a week after Charter97, an opposition website and are a nominee for this year’s
Index On Censorship Freedom of Expression awards had its
offices raided and its head of press beaten.February 9th, 2010
Luiz Claudio Cunha, journalist and author of the book “Operation Condor: The kidnapping of the Uruguayans”, is
facing charges for “moral harm” against João Augusto da Rosa, former member of the secret police during the
Brazilian dictatorship. According to the officer, who was convicted in 1980, the book failed to mention that he was acquitted in 1983 for “lack of evidence”. The book has won several awards in Brazil and received a mention in the awards
“Casa de las Americas 2010″, failed in Havana last week.
