Posts Tagged ‘radio journalist’
February 7th, 2012
A radio journalist was
abducted and tortured by police last week in
Djibouti, Africa. Farah Abadid Hildid of radio station La Voix de Djibouti, was forced into a car by one uniformed police officer and one plain clothed officer on Thursday morning. The journalist was blindfolded and taken to a cell, where he was forced to remove his clothes, and was beaten with pieces of rubber. Hildid’s abductors told him: “We’ve had enough of you. You must stop broadcasting information about us. You must stop bothering the police and the Department for Investigation and Documentation. It will be the worse for you if you continue.”
April 21st, 2011
Vietnamese authorities have dropped charges against a female blogger who was detained for :infringing on the interests of the state”. She was arrested for
defamation after describing a senior official’s son as a womanizer. Le Nguyen Huong Tra, who blogged under the pseudonym Co Gai Do Long
, was arrested last October and released on bail this January. Authorities have
declared her actions to be “less serious” than first thought.
October 14th, 2010
A Congolese journalist who was arrested on 7 October has been
charged with defamation. Kasereka Taipa, who works for local radio station Moto Oicha, and also reports for radio Victoire Horizon, had accused the national intelligence agency (ANR) of levying a tax on anyone wanting to build a permanent structure. After being detained at ANR regional headquarters for four days, Taipa has now been released. His trial begins on 15 October.
April 19th, 2010
Geovanni Acate, director of
Radio Televisión Oriente, is
facing a 10-year prison sentence after being charged with disrupting public tranquility and instigating the public to commit the crime of rebellion. Geovanni Acate, as
Radio La Voz and other radio stations in the region, has been persecuted after reporting on the
protests that took place in
Bagua Grande in 2009.
March 31st, 2010
On 28 March, unknown persons
attacked and burned the car of journalist Adela Gómez, from Radio 21, in
Santa Cruz province (southern part of Argentina). The attack took place while her car
was parked outside Gómez’s house. The journalist is well know in the area for her investigations on local polical power. “I don’t know if I’m going to keep practicing the profession because I fear for my life, and I have a family,”
she said.
