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A Palestinian cameraman was killed in the Gaza City neighbourhood of Shijaiyah on Sunday, according to news reports and the journalist's colleague. More than 60 Palestinians and 13 Israeli soldiers were killed in clashes between Israeli and Hamas forces in Shijaiyah that day, according to news reports. Khaled Reyadh Hamad was working on a film for the local Continue Production Films about the...

Pro-Russia separatists in eastern Ukraine should stop threatening and obstructing journalists from reporting on the Malaysia Airlines plane crash, the Committee to Protect Journalists said Monday. Since Friday, armed separatists with the self-declared Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) have briefly detained and threatened at least 10 foreign correspondents, according to international press reports...

In a mounting clampdown on press, Internet, and social media freedoms, a new military directive in Thailand has barred any critical reporting or commentary about the ruling National Council for Peace and Order junta. The Committee to Protect Journalists called for an immediate reversal of the freedom-curbing edict and all other measures that promote self-censorship and have been imposed since the...

The International Press Institute (IPI) on Monday urged Brazil to implement safety measures for journalists amid reports that at least 36 were attacked between June 12 and July 13 while covering protests against the World Cup. The Brazilian Association of Investigative Journalists (ABRAJI) told IPI that almost 90 percent of the attacks – which included 17 more cases of aggression against or...

The Ethiopian government should immediately drop politically motivated charges brought against 10 bloggers and journalists on July 17, 2014, under the country’s deeply flawed anti-terrorism law. The Ethiopian authorities arrested six of the bloggers and three journalists on April 25 and 26. They have been detained in Maekelawi, the Federal Police Crime Investigation Sector in Addis Ababa. The...

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and the Bangladesh Manobodhikar Sambadik Forum (BMSF) condemn the assault of eight journalists during a football match in Dhaka on Monday night, July 14. According to reports, the journalists were allegedly assaulted by a group of the Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) activists of Dhaka University during a football match at the campus. The...

Israeli airstrikes on buildings housing media outlets in Gaza injured at least three journalists this week. The strikes came as Israel engages in a ground offensive in the Gaza Strip. On Friday, Muhammad Shabat, cameraman for the Palestinian news agency Watania Media Agency, was hospitalised briefly for hand injuries suffered after an Israeli airstrike hit the Al-Jawhara tower in Gaza City, news...

Nigerian authorities should drop the charges against a publisher who has been held in police custody since Tuesday on accusations of defaming a state governor, the Committee to Protect Journalists said Friday. Police on Tuesday detained Oga Tom Uhia, publisher of the monthly independent Power Steering magazine, Alexander Oketa, his lawyer, told CPJ. Uhia was charged in a lower court on Wednesday...

The International Press Institute (IPI) on Friday called on authorities in Afghanistan to apprehend the assailants who gunned down a journalist at his home last weekend. The Afghanistan Journalists Center (AFCJ) reported that Khalid Agha Yaqubi, 27, was killed on Saturday in northern Afghanistan. The AFCJ said Yaqubi was shot by assailants who had been searching for him and who opened fire after...

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and its affiliate Afghanistan Independent Journalists Association (AIJA) have called for a thorough investigation into the shooting murder of radio journalist Khalid Agah Yaqubi this week. He is the fourth journalist to be killed in Afghanistan this year and marks a disturbing decline in journalist safety in the lead-up to and following the...