Conflict Journalism

Colombo - A journalist who reported on defence matters and worked as a government press advisor was shot dead by unidentified killers outside Sri Lanka's capital, police said Sunday. The bullet-riddled body of Lakmal Sampath was found by police on Sunday morning at Dehiwala, eight kilometres south of Colombo, police said. He was a former defence correspondent for a Sinhala-language newspaper...

(FNJ/IFEX) - Maoist chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal, alias Prachanda, has expressed Maoists' commitment towards press freedom, multiparty democracy and human rights. Addressing an interaction organized by the Federation of Nepalese Journalists (FNJ) in the capital on Thursday (29th June 2006), the Maoist supreme leader said that the development of the Nepalese media after 1990 has been positive. He...

The Bush administration's attempt to demonize the New York Times -- a newspaper that gave the administration plenty of aid and comfort when the White House was spinning lies about WMDs in Iraq -- will be remembered as one of the ugliest chapters in the history of press freedom in the United States. The question that will ultimately be asked is not whether the Times did the right thing in revealing...

Police forces of Puntland Regional State of Somalia, which controls the northeast regions of Somalia, yesterday arrested online journalist Hussein Yasin Godegode in Galka'yo town of Mudug region. Mr. Hussein works for a website called Idamaale.com, which features news and comments across Somalia. The reason of this arrest reportedly came out after the journalist wrote critical reports on Mudug...

STOCKHOLM, Sweden -- Sweden's foreign minister urged Somalia's authorities to speedily investigate the slaying last week of a Swedish journalist at an Islamist rally in Mogadishu and deplored the violence that has shaken the African nation, according to comments published Monday. Foreign Minister Jan Eliasson condemned the fatal shooting of veteran cameraman Martin Adler, and said that he has...

PESHAWAR: Journalist Hayatullah Khan took a photo of something the government said was never there. Within days he disappeared without a trace, dragged off by masked men. Last week, six months after his abduction, his body was found dumped in North Waziristan, handcuffed and shot in the back. The tragic news has startled the nation, sparking protests, and the government ordered a judicial probe...

KATHMANDU: The Nepalese media that was vibrant and proud even during 14 months of King Gyanendra's absolute rule is today hanging down its head in shame amid reports that journalists received money from the Royal government. The Nepalese government revealed that about 90 journalists affiliated with various news media received money during the period of royal direct rule to "write about the peace...

Journalist Hayatullah Khan took a photo of something Pakistan's government said was never there. Within days he disappeared without a trace, dragged off by masked men. Last week, six months after his abduction, his body was found dumped in North Waziristan, handcuffed and shot in the back. The tragic news has startled the nation, sparking protests, and the government ordered a judicial probe into...

JACOBABAD/SUKKUR, June 22: TV reporter Mukesh Rupeta and his cameraman Sanjay Kumar were produced in the court of a civil judge here on Thursday, three months after they had been detained for filming the Jacobabad airbase, designated as a sensitive area. Members of their families, close relatives and friends were in the court. The two had been handed over on Wednesday to the Jacobabad Airport...

KARACHI: A journalist working with a private television news channel has gone missing since March while filming a military base used by US forces, his company said on Wednesday. The whereabouts of Mukesh Rupeta remained unknown since March when he was arrested by police for filming Shahbaz Air Base in southern Jacobabad, a Geo television spokesman said in a statement. “The only available report...