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Monday, 04 April 2005 |
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(RSF/IFEX) - RSF has voiced dismay at the 31 March 2005 death of provincial newspaper editor Khagendra Shrestha. Shrestha succumbed to gunshot wounds to the head he received two weeks earlier when armed men burst into his office in Dharan, eastern Nepal. He died in hospital in the Indian town of Siliguri, where he was rushed shortly after being shot.
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Thursday, 31 March 2005 |
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Marlene Esperat, a journalist/anti-graft crusader, was killed in Sultan Kudarat last week. Marlene was a good friend of PCIJ's and a source for some of our corruption stories. This report pays tribute to her.
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Tuesday, 29 March 2005 |
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(RSF/IFEX) - RSF has urged the European Union Commissioner for External Relations and the US Secretary of State to press for cyber-dissident Pham Hong Son to be included in a forthcoming amnesty announced by Vietnamese authorities. Pham Hong Son is about to start his fourth year in jail.
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Monday, 28 March 2005 |
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(RSF/IFEX) - RSF has expressed "horror" at the murder of newspaper columnist Marlyn Garcia Esperat, of the weekly "Midland Review". Garcia Esperat was shot dead by two gunmen on 24 March 2005, at her home in Tacurong, on the southern island of Mindanao. Her 10-year-old daughter was with her at the time.
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Thursday, 24 March 2005 |
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(RSF/IFEX) - On 20 March 2005, an army officer brutally assaulted journalist Nisar Abbas, of the privately-owned Geo TV and the daily "Jang" in Skardu (Northern Areas). The journalist confirmed to RSF that he was assaulted during a military raid to obstruct a ceremony organised by a humanitarian non-governmental organisation. A soldier beat Abbas with the butt of his rifle, leaving him badly bruised, particularly on his shoulders.
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