Reporters Without Borders

Brazil Fugitive police inspector named as leading suspect in O Dia torture case, another suspect arrested

6.06.2008 - A convicted criminal and a police inspector have been named as the leaders of a militia operating in the Rio de Janeiro favela of Batan that kidnapped and tortured three employees of the O Dia newspaper on 14 May. The first has been arrested, the second is on the run.

	6.06 - Colombia Captured guerrilla says ELN was responsible for journalist’s abduction in February

	6.06 - Chile Letter to President Bachelet about documentary filmmaker held for past month

	4.06 - Venezuela Business daily’s vice-president gunned down in Caracas, brother had received death threats

	3.06 - Mexico State justice refuses to issue arrest warrants against key suspects in journalist torture case

	3.06 - Colombia Arauca community radio station threatened by persons claiming to be paramilitaries

	2.06 - Mexico Journalist Jorge Carrasco Taracena turns up safe and well one month after he went missing


	8.06 - China : Manager of website fzh999.net sentenced to ten days in prison - Kazakhstan : Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty accessible again after being blocked for seven weeks


	23 journalists in prison

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	2006

	14.03.2008 - Cuba Reporters Without Borders releases its report : No surrender by independent journalists, five years on from “black spring”
	5.06.2007 - Venezuela Report of fact-finding trip to Venezuela : "Closure of Radio Caracas Televisión consolidates media hegemony"
	22.05.2007 - Colombia Paramilitary "black eagles" poised to swoop down on press