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Abdul Aziz Shaheen, a local journalist working for local dailies Azadi and Khabarkar in the troubled district of Swat in the NWFP province of Pakistan, was killed on August 29, in an attack by jet fighters on a Taliban hideout, where he was being held by the Taliban, Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF) has eported. Shaheen had gone to the Peuchar area of Tehsil Matta of Swat to investigate who was...

A journalist and three others were detained by the Mumbai Police on Saturday after they were involved into a scuffle with filmmaker Ashok Pandit while staging a protest at Azad Maidan in the city, the Indian Express has reported. Dilnaz Boga, who is working with a city newspaper, has done extensive research on Kashmir and made a documentary on the plight of children in Kashmir. She had also called...

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has called on authorities in the southern Russian republic of Dagestan to end their month-long offensive against the opposition weekly Chernovik ("Rough Draft") in the regional capital, Makhachkala. Investigators with the local prosecutor's office and officers with the Criminal Investigation (UR) department of Dagestan's Interior Ministry searched the...

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has urged Indian authorities to protect journalists and lift restrictions on media workers in curfew-bound Jammu and Kashmir after a cameraman was killed and a near-total news blackout hit the main city of Srinagar. Srinagar newspapers did not reach the stands today for the fifth consecutive day and cable operators shut down international news broadcasts...

In an error that could have cost Apple investors millions of dollars the Bloomberg financial newswire accidentally published a 17-page obituary of Apple CEO Steve Jobs on Wednesday. Bloomberg dispatched the Apple supremo to the hereafter with the obit inadvertently published during an update, gossip blog Gawker reported on Thursday. The short-lived homage – quickly pulled – contained a...

Iranian journalist Yosef Azizi Banitruf has been sentenced to five years in jail after he exposed excessive use of force against demonstrators from the Arab community who clashed with security forces in Khuzestan in south-west Iran, Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) has reported. The trial of Azizi Banitruf, a member of Iran's Arab minority, was held over almost two years. The Tehran revolutionary...

Hasan Abdullah, an anchor and reporter for Pakistan's leading television channel Dawn News, was detained for six hours by officers of an intelligence agency on August 26 and was released after being interrogated, the Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF) has reported. The agents kept his cellphone and a tape containing an interview with Balach Marri, head of the Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA), who...

Colombian President Álvaro Uribe Vélez called for a criminal investigation of Daniel Coronell on Thursday, alleging that the journalist broke the law by not immediately disclosing a videotaped interview that allegedly links the administration to a bribery scandal. The New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has urged Colombian authorities to dismiss Uribe's request. On Thursday...

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has welcomed the release of a Reuters cameraman held by US forces in Iraq for three weeks without charge, and it called on the military to charge or release an Associated Press journalist who has been held since June. Ali al-Mashhadani, 39, was freed thursday, Reuters reported. He had been arrested on July 29 in Baghdad by US military forces while he was...

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has condemned the Colombo high court’s indictment of journalist JS Tissainayagam Monday on terrorism charges for articles he published in 2006. Sri Lanka’s Terrorist Investigation Division arrested Tissainayagam, the editor of news website OutreachSL, and five of his colleagues within a few days in March 2008. Three of the group were released later that...