Conflict Journalism

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) Friday called on the Egyptian regime to end all targeting of journalists on the streets of Cairo and other Egyptian cities. "The hostage taking, beatings, and intimidation have deeply shocked the world of journalism and must be stopped immediately" said Aidan white, IFJ General Secretary. "We hold the Egyptian authorities responsible. They must act...

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and its regional group, the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ), have appealed to the European Heads of State meeting in Brussels to vigorously protest to the Egyptian authorities over the systematic violence against media staff and targeting of journalists covering the current protests and civil unrest in Egypt. The last 48 hours has been a...

Paris-based press freedom group Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) has posted a provisional tally of cases of abuses against journalists and media since the start of the violence on February 2, above all in Cairo’s Tahrir Square. The tally is far from final or definitive. Additional cases keep on being reported and it is very difficult to compile a comprehensive inventory of the situation. It will be...

Dominican police wounded journalist Francisco Frías Morel on Friday as he was covering a funeral procession for a youth killed in a police shooting in the northeastern city of Nagua, according to news reports and CPJ interviews. The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) called on local authorities to conduct a thorough investigation and to hold those responsible to account. "We condemn the use of...

Paris-based press freedom group Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) has joined the Union of Journalists in Tajikistan (TUJ) and the National Association of Independent Media in Tajikistan (NANSMIT) in condemning the prosecution of the independent weekly Asia-Plus, undertaken by the head of the Organised Crime Control Department (UBOP), Anvar Tagaimurodov, in violation of international and Tajik law...

A night-time attack was carried out by eight gunmen on Radio Paiman in the northeastern city of Baghlan on Monday. The assailants beat and gagged the guard and then destroyed all the equipment, according to Paris-based press freedom group Reporters sans Frontières (RSF). No journalist was injured. “Attacks on journalists have increased since the start of the year, which makes their work...

There have been shocking attacks on BBC, Al Jazeera, CNN, Al-Arabiya and ABC News journalists by Hosni Mubarak supporters who were reportedly accompanied by plainclothes police. The attacks took place during clashes in central Cairo’s Tahrir Square between supporters of the president and demonstrators calling for his resignation. “The use of violence against media personnel is especially shocking...

Belgian journalist Serge Dumont was arrested Wednesday in Cairo, Paris-based press freedom group Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) has reported. The Middle East correspondent of three newspapers – Belgium’s Le Soir, Switzerland’s Le Temps and France’s La Voix du Nord – was arrested and beaten by men in plainclothes at midday while in the central neighbourhood of Choubra. He was then taken to a...

Two journalists employed by Télévision Notre Patrie (TVNP) – a pirate TV station based in the northern city of Bouaké that supports the former rebel New Force – were arrested on their arrival in Abidjan on January 28, according to Paris-based press freedom group Reporters sans Frontières (RSF). The two journalists – Sanogo Aboubakar, aka Abou Sanogo, and Kangbé Yayoro Charles Lopez, aka Gnahoré...

The press freedom scene is worsening in Sudan, according to Paris-based press freedom group Reporters sans Frontières (RSF). The country is already hostile to the work of journalists and seizures of journals and arrests of media professionals yesterday in connection with popular demonstrations raise fears of a major return of repression. “We condemn the wish of the Khartoum government to censor...