Posts Tagged ‘radio’
April 10th, 2013
One month has passed since a radio presenter was gunned down in the Brazilian town of Ipatinga, in the state of Minas Gerais, with no results from the police investigation. Both his colleagues and authorities believe the crime was caused by sensitive information the journalist presented on this radio crime show.
Rodrigo Neto was shot while leaving a restaurant on the evening of Friday 8 March. Two men on a motorcycle accosted him and opened fire. The presenter was hit on the head and on the chest. The gunmen escaped unidentified.
The case is still being investigated by the police.
State Deputy Durval Ângelo, who is president of the Human Rights Committee on Minas Gerais’s Legislative Assembly, claims the journalist had given him information about policemen involved in crimes on the Ipatinga area.
Workmates of Rodrigo from Vanguarda radio station are sure the murder is connected to his work as a crime show presenter.
Rodrigo was not the first radio presenter to be gunned down in Brazil this year. On 22nd February, journalist Mafaldo Góis was shot and killed in the town of Jaguaribe, in the northeastern state of Ceará. His death is believed to have been ordered by a local drug dealer, cited by Góis in this crime radio show.
Brazil had the 5th highest number of journalists killed in the world in 2012, with 5 cases, according to the International Press Institute .
April 10th, 2013
A judge from the Brazilian State of Goiás has ruled that a football club director allegedly linked to the killing of a sports journalist must remain in prison while he awaits trial.
Radio presenter Valério Luiz de Oliveira was gunned down at the front door of 820 AM radio station in the state capital Goiânia on 5 July 2012.
Businessman Maurício Borges Sampaio, who acted as Atlético Clube Goianiense’s vice-president up to 10 days before Oliveira’s murder, was arrested in February this year accused of having ordered the killing. He denies having any link to the crime.
Days before being killed, Oliveira went on air to strongly denounce Atlético’s management for the team, after poor results on the pitch led to the club’s relegation to the second tier of the Brazilian league later that year .
Among other statements, the presenter compared Atlético’s directors to “rats” that abandon a ship before it sinks .
In a testimony given to the Police, Sampaio admitted signing a document that barred Oliveira’s radio staff from the club’s premises. The former director also claimed the radio presenter had already being banned from Goiás and Vila Nova, two other football clubs in Goiânia.
Three other people accused of acting in the journalist’s killing are also being held in prison.
June 24th, 2011
Members of the Sufi group,
Ahlu Sunna Waljama (ASWJ), shut down Radio Dhusamareb of central
Somalia on Wednesday evening. Seven masked intruders forced staff to evacuate the building and the station’s editor was arrested and taken into custody. He has now been released without charge. Less than
24 hours before the attack,
Al Shabaab militants silenced the Voice of Hiran radio station in the town of Beletweyne.
April 28th, 2011
Burundi’s state-run media regulator, the National Communications Council, suspended a popular talk show on Monday (25 April) after a caller accused the President of wrongdoing. The show, Kabizi, was ordered off the air for an
initial four-day period. The caller insinuated that the President had committed war crimes during Burundi’s civil war, the show’s host had immediately stopped the caller and asked him to refer his allegations to the Burundi Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
April 28th, 2011
The
Thai government forced the closure of 13 radio stations on Tuesday (26 April) and issued them with court warrants for broadcasting a speech by an opposition leader in which the monarchy was criticised. In Thailand, Les majeste, or offence against the monarchy, carries a
maximum sentence of 15 years in prison. It is as yet unclear whether the stations will face such a charge. According to
rights organisations most of the sanctioned stations are openly aligned with the opposition.
Local reports have also claimed that police plan to raid additional radio stations.
March 3rd, 2011
Juan Pedro Mendene, a radio presenter for the Equatorial Guinean broadcaster RTVGE, has been
suspended for mentioning the Libyan uprising on his radio show. His live show was halted on the orders of Federico Abaga Ondo, the Secretary of State for Information and Press. The government has imposed a total news
blackout on the uprisings in North Africa and the Middle East.
February 16th, 2011
Mexican radio station MVS has
reinstated Carmen Aristegui, the journalist
fired last week after
speculating about President Felipe Calderon’s alleged drinking problem. The dismissal provoked widespread
debate about freedom of expression in Mexico. MVS’s decision to rehire her was based on discussions with Aristegui - as well as public discussion about her radio show, the station said.
October 7th, 2010
The Sudanese Ministry of Information has
refused to renew the license of Monte Carlo radio’s Arabic service, which broadcasts in Sudan from Paris. The radio station was told that certain laws and regulations prevent the license renewal from taking place. Similarly vague reasons were given to the BBC, when the British broadcaster’s Arabic radio service was
banned from Sudan a few weeks ago. The government has insisted that neither decision was political, but the Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI) drew attention to the popularity of both stations, leaving no real cause for discontinuing broadcasts.
