1DPLELD called Hitradio will air soon and will be broadcasting 70% in German and 30% in English. $OHUW Date: September 21, 2012 Person/ institution: Uushona Hiskia and Selma Ikela Violation/ issue: Detained The Namibian Broadcasting cooperation (NBC) Cameraman Uushona Hiskia and Namibian Sun newspaper journalist Selma Ikela were detained briefly on September 20, 2012 at the Katutura Magistrate Court for filming and taking pictures in court. The pair was covering a court case involving two suspects (20 and 21 years old) accused of 3 cases of armed robbery and assult at the Katutura Magistrate Court. $OHUW Date: October 2, 2012 Person/ institution: The Namibian newspaper Violation/ issue: Legislation The Namibia newspaper is back at court yet again on charges of defamation, this time they are taken to court by the Presidential pilot Alois Nyandoro. He is suing the Free Press of Namibia (PTY) Ltd, which is the company owning The Namibian, the newspaper’s former editor, Gwen Lister, and a former journalist, Jana-Mari Smith, for N$ 500 000 ( US$ 61,069.30) in connection with an article which was published in the March 11, 2010. According to a report by The Namibian Nyandoro claims that a story published under the headline “Air Namibia ‘bypasses’ pilot 6R7KLVLV'HPRFUDF\" licensing rules”, was defamatory as it alleged that he abused his position and office to solicit for a license to be issued a South African pilot under falsified information. $OHUW Date: October 15, 2012 Person/ institution: New Era newspaper Violation/ issue: Legislation The Namibian newspaper reported on Wednesday 10 October, that the Government-owned newspaper New Era is reviewing its editorial and recruitment policies in an apparent attempt to exert more control over the paper’s reporting. According to the report, the board chairman, Ben Mulongeni, has confirmed the review, but said that it was not aimed at muzzling the paper. $OHUW Date: October 17, 2012 Person/ institution: Jihad Karools, Informante Violation/ issue: Assaulted Jihad Karools, a reporter with a weekly tabloid, Informanté , was on Thursday, 11 October 2012 assaulted by Jamaica Awaseb, a representative of Ehupo Trading Enterprise, the company responsible for distributing maize meal to government schools. Karools was assaulted after an article citing Awaseb titled “Illegally storing a large consignment of maize meal bags in in-laws’s house” was published. MISA-Namibia condemns any attack on media practitioners in their line of duty, as violence will not serve