2005-2014

Following a vicious attack on a cameraman for the La Paz-based television network Gigavisión outside the station's offices early Saturday morning, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has called on Bolivian authorities to thoroughly investigate and bring those responsible to justice. At 6 a.m. on Saturday, two people pushed Marcelo Lobo into an alley near his offices and hit him repeatedly...

Mexican authorities found the brutally beaten body of a journalist partially buried near the southwestern resort city of Acapulco Tuesday afternoon, the Committee to Protect Journalists has reported quoting local news reports. Juan Daniel Martínez Gil, anchor of the radio news programs "W Acapulco" on national W Radio and "Guerrero en vivo" on local Radiorama Acapulco, was found buried in a vacant...

Two detained Iranian photographers are said to have confessed sending pictures to the "enemy" following the country's disputed June 12 presidential elections, according to the official Iranian News Agency (IRNA). IRNA Wednesday reported that photographers Majid Saeedi and Satyar Emami have confessed to having ties with a movement seeking to topple the Iranian government. IRNA's statement said that...

Supporters of the head of a local dargah in Gulbarga attacked the office of Kannada daily Samyukta Karnataka on Friday and assaulted the staff. Three employees of the newspaper were severely injured, the Hindu has reported. The daily’s circulation manager Vilas Deshpande, who suffered serious head injuries, has been admitted to the Government General Hospital, and his condition stated to be...

Mridul Phukan alias Samar Kakati, the prime accused in the murder of eminent journalist Parag Das, was Tuesday acquitted by a Guwahati court for lack of evidence. District and Sessions Judge, Kamrup, Justice Dilip Kumar Mahanta, delivered the verdict in a jam-packed court amidst tight security. The one-line verdict said Phukan, one of the three living accused in the murder case, was acquitted due...

A female Indian reporter was attacked while working undercover to expose scams targeting foreign students in Australia's booming education sector, Agence France-Presse (AFP) has reported quoting the country's public broadcaster. The young woman was threatened and then physically assaulted in a Sydney street over the weekend while investigating dubious practices exploiting Indian students, the...

The Democratic Republic of Congo government has shut down local FM retransmission of the French public radio station Radio France Internationale (RFI) throughout the country since July 26, Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) and Journalist in Danger (JED) have reported. JED has confirmed from various sources that RFI’s broadcasts on the FM waveband have been cut since July 26 in Kinshasa (the country...

Another radio journalist has been killed in the Mindanao island of the Philippines. Two unidentified men Monday shot Godofredo Linao in the back near the offices of Radyo Natin, where he worked as a commentator, in Surigao del Sol province on southern Mindanao Island, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has reported. Radyo Natin's manager and owner, Mario Alviso said Linao had been summoned...

Death threats have been made against the Al-Jazeera in Yemen. Murad Hashem, Al-Jazeera's bureau chief in Sana'a, told the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) that on Sunday morning an unknown caller contacted his office and left a threatening message with his secretary that said: "Tell the bureau chief that his death is imminent. By God, we will get to him [even] at his home," the caller said...

Andhra Pradesh Assembly Speaker N Kiran Kumar Reddy on Thursday imposed restrictions on all live transmissions from the premises, except for the live telecast of the House proceedings, the Times of India reported. Addressing the media, a day before the start of the budget session, the Speaker said several regulations were put in place for the budget session by limiting visitors and media personnel...