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Pakistani journalist Hamid Mir, a renowned television presenter with the country’s Geo TV, was the victim of yet another attack on Saturday evening, which left him seriously wounded. Unidentified gunmen opened fire on Mir’s car as the journalist was driving on his way from the Karachi airport to the studios of Geo TV. Mir, who was hit by six bullets, was rushed to a local hospital. According...

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has expressed concern at the criminal proceedings that the CAR authorities have initiated against three journalists. It has also urged the media and the transitional authorities to defuse the tension in their relations. Last week, two newspaper editors were arrested and taken before a judge on charges of libelling President Catherine Samba Panza in articles. They...

Seven journalists were among those attacked when Iranian guards and intelligence officials raided a section of Tehran's Evin Prison holding political prisoners on Thursday, according to news websites and human rights groups. The unprecedented violent attack left dozens of prisoners injured, some hospitalised, and others transferred to solitary confinement, according to news reports. Among those...

Reporters Without Borders has condemned independent journalist Juliet Michelena Díaz’s detention since April 7, three days before the publication of a by-lined report she wrote for the Miami-based independent news platform Cubanet about a case of ordinary police violence she had witnessed in Havana. Michelena, who was arrested in a heavy-handed police operation, is a member of the Cuban Network...

A brutal attack has been carried out on an editor in Ukraine, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has reported. Two unidentified assailants approached Yevgeny Polozhy, editor-in-chief of the independent news website Panorama, on Monday night outside his apartment in the northeastern city of Sumy, according to a local press freedom group and news reports citing the editor's wife. The...

A Thai court Thursday formally charged two journalists for the local Phuketwan news website with criminal defamation, according to news reports. The charges were brought by a Thai navy official. Alan Morison, an Australian national, and Chutima Sidasathian, a Thai national, were detained for five hours Thursday in Phuket while their bail application was processed, according to an email from...

The International Press Institute Wednesday urged Philippine authorities to step up their investigation into the killing of a veteran newspaper journalist who was shot multiple times in an attack at her home last week. Rubylita Garcia, who had worked for the daily Remate for 20 years, was shot in front of her son and 10-year-old granddaughter the morning of April 6 in Bacoor, a city south of...

Three Lebanese employees of Al-Manar, a TV station owned by Lebanon’s Hezbollah, were fatally shot on April 14, in Al-Maaloula, a Christian town 60 km south of Damascus. Al-Manar named the victims as reporter Hamza Al-Hajj Hassan, cameraman Mohamed Muntich and technician Halim Alouh. They were killed by shots fired by rebels still in Al-Maaloula after it was recovered by government forces backed...

Two Egyptian journalists were shot by live ammunition on Monday while covering clashes in Cairo between security forces and university students supportive of the Muslim Brotherhood, according to news reports. At least one student was killed in the clashes, news reports said. Amr Abdel-Fattah, photographer for the independent TV channel Sada El-Balad, was shot in the back and underwent surgery at a...

Authorities in Cameroon should release a newspaper editor who has been imprisoned since March 29 after being convicted of criminal defamation, the Committee to Protect Journalists reported Tuesday. On Friday last, a judge postponed indefinitely a bail hearing for Amungwa Tanyi Nicodemus, according to news reports. On March 10, a court in the northwestern city of Bamenda sentenced Nicodemus...