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HABANIYAH, Iraq -- U.S. Marines who cracked the Jill Carroll kidnapping case say the American journalist was held for a time in a home within sight of a sprawling U.S. military base in western Iraq. The Marines said the big break occurred May 19 when they searched a suspect's home near the Taqqadum logistics base seven weeks after Carroll's release. Jake Cusack, 24, a first lieutenant from Grand...

(CPJ/IFEX) - New York, August 9, 2006 - The editor of the private newspaper Umuco has gone into hiding following official criticism of articles in his paper and a police summons, according to several local sources. Bonaventure Bizumuremyi also complained of receiving threatening phone calls, the sources said. The incidents come days after another Umuco journalist, Jean-Léonard Rugambage, was freed...

BAGHDAD, Iraq, Aug. 9 — American marines have captured four Iraqi men suspected of playing a role in the kidnapping of an American journalist, Jill Carroll, in Baghdad in January, American military officials said Wednesday. Maj. Gen. William B. Caldwell IV said the four men, whom he declined to identify, were arrested in the Sunni Arab-dominated region west of Baghdad. On Wednesday, an American...

(FLIP/IFEX) - Milton Fabián Sánchez, a journalist with the radio station Yumbo Estéreo, was murdered on 9 August 2006 in Yumbo, a city in southeastern Colombia. The journalist was on his way home at approximately 10:30 p.m. (local time) when he was approached by two attackers that shot him twice from a motorcycle. Seriously wounded, Sánchez was first taken to the Hospital La Buena Esperanza in...

London and Gland, Switzerland, 10 August 2006 (Reuters Foundation/IUCN) – Reuters Foundation and the World Conservation Union (IUCN) launch today the 2006 Media Awards, a worldwide competition aimed at raising global awareness of environmental and sustainable development issues, by encouraging excellence in environmental reporting worldwide. The Awards, established in 1998 by Reuters Foundation...

(MFWA/IFEX) - On 4 August 2006, the government of Niger threatened to revoke the licenses of some independent FM radio stations for what it described as "inciting civil war in the country." Prime Minister Hama Amadou, who issued the threat at a press conference in Niamey, failed to disclose the radio stations that would be affected. According to Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA)-Niger...

(RSF/IFEX) - RSF strongly condemns the 9 August 2006 shooting attack by hooded gunmen on the Oaxaca-based daily "Noticias, Voz e Imagen de Oaxaca", in which two employees were seriously injured. The newspaper has been the target of threats and intimidation linked to its independent stance and criticism of this southern state's government since 2004. "We deplore the harassment and attacks on this...

(CPJ/IFEX) - New York, August 9, 2006 - The Committee to Protect Journalists welcomes reports that the U.S. military arrested four Iraqi men in the kidnapping of American freelance journalist Jill Carroll in Baghdad today. "In a time of increasing dangers to journalists in Iraq, it is certainly welcome news that these four individuals have been detained and will be held accountable for the...

(RSF/IFEX) - Reporters Without Borders has condemned the decision of the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) on 26 July 2006 to add 34 new web addresses to the list of sites to which it blocks access. For the most part they were Baluch nationalist sites, online radio stations and sites relating to the Sindhi minority. "We deplore these latest filtering measures and we insist, yet again...

(Globe International/IFEX) - On 27 July 2006, Mr. M. Yadmaa, governor of Omnogovi province, ordered department heads not to give information to AltanGobi television while the TV cameraman, Mr M. Shinekhuu, was reporting on a meeting of the heads of the governor's departmental offices. On 26 July, AltanGobi television aired a programme covering the excessive increase in the price of meat and...