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Srinagar, May 19: In a sheer act of revenge, an Army Major on Saturday evening barged into the house of GK Reporter for Varmul Altaf Baba and subjected his family to harassment. “Troops led by Major Khanna barged into my house after a soldier was shot dead near police station Varmul and harassed my family. The troops burnt identity card of my father Ghulam Jeelani Baba who is a journalist and...

(SomaliNet) A newspaper columnist was this sentenced to six months in prison by a Maputo court for defaming an opposition politician, published in 2005 in an independent newspaper. The columnist for the weekly independent Zambeze newspaper, Edwin Hounnou, whose real name is Inacio Baptista, was found guilty of defaming Francisco Machambisse, a Renamo Electoral Union Member of Parliament. according...

ISLAMABAD: South Asian News Agency (Sana news) Chief Editor Shakeel Ahmed Turabi has been seriously wounded in a murder attempt on his life by sleuths of unknown secret agencies. Shakeel Ahmed Turabi was passing by Peshawar Mor in his car on Friday at around 11:45 am when a navy blue car bearing Chakwal number plate 4931 came on the side of his car and signaled Ahmed Turabi to stop. However when...

ABU DHABI (Reuters) - The bureau chief of the United Arab Emirates' Abu Dhabi TV in Gaza, abducted briefly by Palestinian gunmen on Friday, refused to identify his captors after the television station blamed Islamist group Hamas. "Those who abducted me are known but I do not wish to say who they are on air," Abdel-Salam Abu Askar told the television channel in a telephone interview after his...

NEW DELHI — Extra! Extra! Researchers have discovered a place where the newspaper, a threatened species in some parts of the world, is still thriving. That would be India, home to 1.1 billion people. And not only is the press in robust health, it's breeding at an astonishing rate. From 2005 to 2006, nearly 2,100 newspapers made their debut in India, joining 60,000 already circulating. Here in the...

(IFJ/IFEX) - The European Federation of Journalists (EFJ), the regional group of the International Federation of Journalists, today condemned the brutal attack by police officers on Emil Ivanov, a well-known Bulgarian photojournalist who was assaulted as he was covering a criminal hearing at the National Palace of Justice in Sofia. Emil Ivanov, 55, and a member of IFJ/EFJ affiliate Podkrepa, was...

Two Iraqi ABC News journalists were killed Thursday in Iraq, ABC News President David Westin has said. Cameraman Alaa Uldeen Aziz, 33, and soundman Saif Laith Yousuf, 26, were returning home from work at the ABC News Baghdad bureau Thursday afternoon when their car was ambushed and they were killed by unknown assailants. Aziz, Yousuf, and another colleague were on their way back home.The three men...

The military government in Thailand closed down three community radio stations - Confidante, Taxi Driver Community Radio and Saturday Voice Against Dictatorship - just hours after they broadcast Thursday an interview with deposed prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra. The authorities have also charged them with violating “national security.” The night of the September 2006 coup, the military pulled...

All reporters from Russian News Service have left the company to protest editorial policies which they describe as “censorship”. New managers of the news agency have banned any coverage for opposition movements, giving the air to members of the Kremlin-backed United Russia party and what they call “positive news”. Artem Khan, a correspondent from Russian News Service, said Thursday he and all his...

Reporters Without Borders today condemned the closure of the independent Arabic-language daily Al-Sudani on 16 May as a result of a complaint by the justice minister about an article accusing him of lying. “Closing a newspaper is a violation of democratic freedoms,” the press freedom organisation said. “President Omar Al-Bashir solemnly undertook to support democratisation in Sudan in a speech to...