Moldova: Journalists intimidated for article on Security Services

IFEX ::

"Mass media nongovernmental organizations are concerned over the harassment and intimidation of journalists of the investigation weekly "Ziarul de Garda".

"Ziarul de Garda" reported it was subjected to pressure and was threatened by phone and email after it had published on September 4, 2008 an article titled "Torrid Summer at SIS".

The article referred to an employee of the Security and Information Service, who reportedly recruited a group of young men to harass the newspaper staff on a daily basis. Unidentified persons threatened to tap the phones of the staff, pretended that they knew the names of the article's authors, their personal addresses, and that of their family members, threatening them with "troubles with SIS". "

Journalist denounces harassment by police after live broadcast of interview with Shining Path leader

"Vásquez noted that the police are also harassing him because of a 15
September broadacast in which a group of Aucayacu residents said that
police officers carried out an operation in which they murdered one of
the community's inhabitants after confusing him with a terrorist.
Although the police denied the allegations and blamed the Shining Path
for the man's death, the residents have said via Vásquez's programme
that the police are lying."

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