Posts Tagged ‘journalists detained’
April 12th, 2011
Members of CNN’s news team were
arrested by the government’s security forces as they were visiting the house of Nabeel Rajab, head of the
Bahrain Center for Human Rights.
Twenty men in black ski masks are reported to have surrounded the news team and confiscated their recording equipment. Government officials have alleged that the team was detained at a checkpoint for not having the proper identification paers. CNN denies the claim and insists its reporters were subject to intimidation and censorship.
April 4th, 2011
Syrian authorities have
released Reuters photographer Khaled al-Hariri. The Syrian national had been
held for six days. He was arrested as he reached his Damascus workplace last Monday. Three
other Reuters journalists have also been
detained this week, but they have been
released and forced to leave the country.
April 4th, 2011
Al Jazeera reporter Lotfi Al Masoudi has been
released after being detained by Libyan forces. He was one of four journalists who were
arrested on 19 March. They were released on the 31 March, then
rearrested later the same day. The Libyan officials offered no explanation as to why they were detained and would not reveal where they were held. Al Masoudi has now returned to his native Tunisia, and has said that they were not mistreated.
March 22nd, 2011
Four New York Times reporters being held by pro-Gaddafi forces have now been
released, but a further 13 journalists from various media organisations are still missing or in detention. The New York Times reporters were released to Turkish diplomats on Monday and have
reported mistreatment including death threats and sexual assault on the only female reporter. The driver for the two AFP reporters and the Getty Images photographer who went missing in Libya
said that they are being held by pro-Gaddafi forces after being intercepted by soldiers.
March 3rd, 2011
Turkish police have
detained 10 people, many of them journalists, in the latest crackdown on an alleged secularist network, which is accused of conspiring to overthrow the government. This follows February’s high profile
raid on the Oda TV news portal. On Monday blog publishing service blogspot.com was
banned inside Turkey.
March 3rd, 2011
Panamanian authorities have
expelled two Spanish journalists who reported on a demonstration against mining law reform. Francesco Gomez Nadal and his girlfriend Pilar Chato were
detained during Saturday’s protests outside the National Assembly. They were held for almost 48 hours and transferred between three detention centres before being forced to leave
. They were
charged with “disrupting public order”. Panamanian officials
said “foreigners are prohibited from participating in all types of political activities or protests”.
February 17th, 2011
Turkish foreign minister Ahmet Davutoglu has
dismissed remarks made by the US ambassador in Ankara. Diplomat Francis J Ricciardone expressed
concerns about
press freedom in the country. His comments came in response to the detention of four journalists following a
raid on opposition news portal Oda TV. The foreign minister said that he did not think it was
right for “ambassador to pass judgment on an ongoing criminal investigation”, and claimed press freedom was not the issue.
