Threatened

The Free Media Movement (FMM) has expressed alarm that another well-known journalist has received a death threat from an unknown caller. Former deputy editor of the Sunday Leader, editor of the monthly magazine Montage and leading investigative journalist and South Asia cocoordinator of the International News Safety Institute (INSI) Frederica Jansz received the death threat at on June 14. The...

Another well-known journalist in Sri Lanka received a death threat Saturday morning from an unknown caller. Former deputy editor of the Sunday Leader, editor of the monthly magazine Montage and leading investigative journalist and South Asia co-coordinator of the International News Safety Institute (INSI) Frederica Jansz received the death threat at approximately 11:30 a.m. The Free Media Movement...

Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) voiced alarm Friday about a programme broadcast by state television stations Namangan TV and Ferghana TV on June 10 that attacked Radio Free Europe (RFE), a US-funded international radio station based in Prague, and gave the addresses of its Uzbek correspondents and the schools attended by their children. “We are extremely disturbed by this smear campaign against...

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) expressed alarm over the report that a woman journalist, Jameela Rishteen Qadiry, reportedly received telephone calls threatening her with the same fate as that of murdered BBC journalist Abdul Samad Rohani in Afghanistan. According to information received from an IFJ affiliate, the Afghan Independent Journalists' Association (AIJA), Qadiry, a...

Hudson Samarasinghe, recently appointed the chairperson of the state-controlled Sri Lanka Broadcasting Cooperation (SLBC), called for the death of senior journalist Poddala Jayantha. This outrageous incitement to murder and violence by Samarasinghe was made 8 June 2008 during a breakfast radio talk show called "Isira". Jayantha is the general secretary of Sri Lanka Working Journalists Association...

When community radio station Sarare Estéreo's journalists arrived for work at dawn on May 29 in Saravena, Aracua department, they found a gigantic graffiti message on the station door, apparently from the Colombian paramilitary group, Autodefensa Unidas de Colombia (AUC), according to the Internaitonal Federation of Journalists (IFJ). This is only the most recent of a series of threatening...

Fabakary B Ceesay, a reporter with the opposition newspaper Foroyaa in the Gambia, was threatened with abduction and violence by an anonymous caller on May 20 and 21, according to the Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA). MFWA sources in the Gambia reported that the caller told Ceesay to stop writing articles critical of the government or "face the consequences." The calls came to Ceesay on two...

Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) has condemned the death threats made in a refugee camp in eastern Nepal on May 16 by members of the Communist Party of Bhutan Marxist-Leninist Maoist (CPB-MLM) against journalists working for the Bhutan News Service, www.apfanews.com, a website operated by the Association of Press Freedom Activists (APFA), a Bhutani exile organisation. The incident took place during...

Following the repeated threats issued on the Editor and staff of the Naharolgi Thoudang by some elements in connection with a news stories at Manipur Bhawan Kolkata, journalists of the State under the aegis of the All Manipur Working Journalists' Union (AMWJU) today highlighted the problem in person to the Chief Minister, the Sangai Express has reported. In a statement, AMWJU said that after the...

Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) has expressed concern for the safety of Marlene Vaz, a journalist based in the northeastern Uruguayan town of Río Branco, and her family, who have been harassed as a result of her reporting the theft of a large consignment of sport shoes involving the Río Branco police in early 2006. The threats have stepped up in recent days as Vaz appeals against her one-year...