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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...

The government in the breakaway republic of Somaliland has launched a crackdown on the independent press as September presidential elections near. On July 13, Somaliland police arrested private Radio Horyaal Director Mohamed Osman and News Editor Ahmed Suleiman at the station, accusing them of inciting violence, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) reported. The two were remanded in custody...

A former senior figure in Ukraine's interior ministry has confessed to the murder in 2000 of journalist Heorhiy Gongadze and implicated high-ranking state officials, Agence France-Presse (AFP) has reported quoting authorities. Details: [ Link] Asked by reporters if the suspect, arrested on Tuesday, had confessed and if he implicated senior Ukrainian officials in the killing, Vassyl Grytsak, deputy...

There have been two incidents since the start of the withdrawal of US forces from the main Iraqi cities two weeks ago that could indicate a worsening in the environment for the Iraqi media. Paris-based Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) fears a resurgence of threats and violence against journalists not only by armed groups, but also the police and other law enforcement personnel. "Iraqi security...

Moroccan journalist Yahya Bentahar was deported last week, shortly after he landed at Algiers airport, according to Reporters sans Frontières (RSF). Bentahar, who works for the Rabat-based weekly Assahrae Al Ousbouiya, had planned to do a report on the political situation in Algeria in the wake of President Abdelaziz Bouteflika's reelection. The Algerian embassy in Rabat had told Assahrae Al...

Media representatives are frequently being prevented by Moldovan authorities from reporting freely, especially following parliamentary elections in April this year, the South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO) has said. According to SEEMO, on July 12 two journalists, Ivan Melnic and Vladimir Thorik from the Moldovan newspaper Moldavskie Vedomosti, were forcefully prevented from entering a...