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Friday September 03, 2004 17:39

by rsf

has so far been worse than 2003.

this year 36 journalists have been killed in the course of their work.
40 journalists have been killed in Iraq since the beginning of the war.
14 Media assistants have been killed
128 Journalists have been imprisoned.
4 Media assistants have been imprisoned
and 69 cyber activists have been sent to camps in China.

here are their names of the dead and the organisations they worked for and the countries in which they were killed:-

Bangladesh
15.01.2004 - Manik Saha, New Age, BBC World Service
22.08.2004 - Kamal Hossain, Ajker Kagoj
07.06.2004 - Humayun Kabir Balu, Dainik Janmabhumi

Brazil
20 April 2004 - Samuel Roman, Station Conquista
24.04.2004 - José Carlos Araújo, Radio Timbaúba FM

Colombia
04.02.2004 - Oscar Alberto Polanco Herrera, CNC Noticias

Haïti
7.03.2004 - Ricardo Ortega, Antena 3

Iraq
26.03.2004 - Bourhan Mohammad al-Louhaybi, ABC News
18.03.2004 - Ali Al-Khatib, Al-Arabiya
18.03.2004 - Ali Abdel Aziz, Al-Arabiya
18.03.2004 - Nadia Nasrat, Diyala Television
19.04.2004 - Assad Kadhim, Al-Iraqiya TV
07.05.2004 - Mounir Bouamrane, TVP
07.05.2004 - Waldemar Milewicz, TVP
27.05.2004 - Kotaro Ogawa, Nikkan Gendai
27.05.2004 - Shinsuke Hashida, Nikkan Gendai
03.06.2004 - Sahar Saad Eddine Nouami, Al-Mizan, Al-Khaima, Al-Hayat Al-Gadida
15.08.2004 - Mahmoud Hamid Abbas, ZDF
15.08.2004 - Hossam Ali, freelance
26.08.2004 - Enzo Baldoni, Diario della settimana

Mexico
22.06.2004 - Francisco Javier Ortíz Franco, Zeta

Nepal
11.08.2004 - Dekendra Raj Thapa, Radio Nepal
07.02.2004 - Padma Raj Devkota, Bhurichula

Pakistan
29.01.2004 - Sajid Tanoli, Shumaal (daily newspaper in urdu language)

Palestinian Authority
02.03.2004 - Khalil Al-Zebin, An-Nashar

Peru
14.02.2004 - Antonio de la Torre Echandía, Radio Orbita

Philippines
11.02.2004 - Rowell Endrinal, Radio DZRC
17.06.2004 - Eliseo "Ely" Binoya, Radyo Natin
31.07.2004 - Roger Mariano, Radio DZJC-Aksyon
05.08.2004 - Arnel Manalo, Radio DZRH

Russia

09.05.2004 - Adlan Khassanov, Reuters
09.07.2004 - Paul Khlebnikov, Forbes

Saudi Arabia
06.06.2004 - Simon Cumbers, BBC

Serbia-Montenegro
28.05.2004 - Dusko Jovanovic, Dan

Sri Lanka
31.05.2004 - Aiyathurai Nadesan, Virakesari, IBC
16.08.2004 - Kandasamy Iyer Balanadarajah, Thinamurasu

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http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=11326

by merrovinginvanjan

Thu Sep 09, 2004 02:42

rsf at rsf dot org

the 6th of September saw Reporters sans frontieres issue a condemnation of the continuing ban by the Alawi government on Al Jazeera. The office has since been completely closed.

if you visit the RSF site you will read details of all journalists and media professionals who have been killed or arrested whilst fulfilling their obligation as professionals.

There isn't a website where you may learn of the women killed while working and fulfilling their obligation as professionals. But there are plenty of movies.

What at first seems to be completely unrelated afterwards seems to be have been linked all along if only by being another value in any assigned set.

Added to the conditions which according to "interim" media organisations now credited with reporting events within Iraq and other states of the region, in a factual and professional way, put to the French government for the release of the two journalists is adherence to Osama's Europe declaration.

It is quite odd, that aside from the doubts to it's veracity, Europe has all but forgotten the declaration made by the man who Bush failed to find, regarding the terms he would accept for "leaving us alone".

I don't think anyone should go blaming him at the moment for "not leaving us alone".
For I am still not convinced it is so simple to define what is meant by "us".

But many of us must admit, we have thought -

"why not just leave these people alone."

christian chesnot.

georges malbrunot.

Bertie Ahern has issued a statement to Al Jazeera Television.

by -

Sun Sep 26, 2004 00:36

as ireland learns from The Independent.
the taoiseach has appealed for the release of a British subject who was kidnapped recently in Iraq.
Al Jazeera's offices in iraq were closed by the Alawi government, an event protested by the above organisation "reporters sans frontiers". The two french journalists story has been subject to a news "black out" by the French authorities but the interolocutors being used in that case proceeded from religious, and Baghdad community leaders and another pan arabic tv satelite channel.

The Taoiseach's message therefore will have been transmitted to the Qatar offices of Al J. (something not being mentioned by the irish press). Bertie regularly requests the release of all hostages, but generally in another "way".

Christian Chesnut and Georges Malbrunot have been released

by iosaf

Tue Dec 21, 2004 19:58

from their captivity.

Their photos are above.
They will arrive ("in good health") at Paris in the next hour.

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