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Kremlin-controlled authorities in Crimea should stop harassing the independent regional broadcaster ATR and allow the outlet to cover the news free from reprisal, the Committee to Protect Journalists said Wednesday. ATR is the only regional broadcaster of the ethnic Crimean Tatar minority. The Simferopol-based anti-extremism department of Crimea's interior ministry sent a letter to the independent...

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has joined IFJ affiliate Free Media Movement (FMM) Sri Lanka in condemning a series of assaults on journalists in Uva and the North provinces in recent days. Chandana Kuruppuarachchi, a journalist with Sirasa TV and MTV Sports, and Palitha Ariyawansa, a correspondent of Lakadeepa newspaper were assaulted on Monday, September 22 when the cadres of...

The Committee to Protect Journalists has expressed alarm at reports that two Tunisian journalists have been held by a militia in eastern Libya for two weeks and called for them to be freed immediately. This is the second time that Sofiene Chourabi and Nadhir Ktari have been kidnapped this month, according to reports. Chourabi, the host and producer of the weekly programme "Dossiyates" on the...

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joined its affiliates Sri Lanka Working Journalists Association (SLWJA) and Free Media Movement (FMM) in condemning the attack on a TV journalist while covering a clash between political forces at Hali-Ela of Badulla district, Uva province on Monday evening, September 22. Chandana Karuppuarachchi, a News1st TV correspondent, was attacked while he...

The Committee to Protect Journalists has welcomed the release of German-American journalist Michael Scott Moore, who was kidnapped by Somali pirates in the city of Galkayo in January 2012. Moore's abduction was not previously reported by most media outlets at the request of those seeking his release. The German magazine Spiegel Online reported that a crisis team from the German Foreign Ministry...

A journalist and two media workers were killed on September 16 while covering an Ebola education campaign in Guinea's south-eastern forested region, according to news reports and local journalists. The bodies of Facély Camara, a journalist with the privately owned radio Liberté FM at N'Zérékoré, and Molou Chérif and Sidiki Sidibé, a technician and a technician intern, respectively, with the...

The International Press Institute (IPI) has expressed sadness at news of the death of two journalists in the West African nation of Guinea. According to the BBC, the journalists’ bodies were found in a septic tank along with five other bodies believed to be health workers. The journalists had disappeared last Tuesday, along with three doctors, after being attacked with stones by locals in the...

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has reiterated its serious concerns towards safety of journalists in Pakistan after the senior leader of IFJ affiliate Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ), had shots fired at his home this week. Unidentified people fired shots at the home of Rana Mohammad Azeem, the Lahore-based president of the PFUJ, on September 16 in a move he believes...

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has joined international condemnation of the latest video released by the so-called IS group in which British photo-journalist, John Cantlie, delivered a scripted message under duress while aware that his life hanged in the balance. John Cantlie is a British war photographer and correspondent who was kidnapped in Syria in November 2012. “It is...

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has expressed its deep shock following disturbing reports of an ongoing bombardment by militants from the Houthi group on the offices of Yemen state TV station Al Yemen. IFJ has demanded an immediate halt to the attack and called for those responsible to be held to account. According to IFJ affiliate, Yemeni Journalists’ Syndicate (YJS), the Al...