Conflict Journalism

A legislative committee in Pakistan has forwarded a bill to the National Assembly that would restrict coverage “of suicide bombers, terrorists, bodies of victims of terrorism, statements and pronouncements of militants and extremist elements and other acts which, may, in any way, promote, aid or abet terrorists or terrorism.” According to The News International, the report of the committee was...

Press freedom groups have expressed concern over the Romanian National Defence Strategy which has been adopted by the Romanian Supreme Defence Council (CSAT) and passed on to the Romanian Parliament. The President of Romania initiated a National Defence Strategy which contained, among other things, serious allegations against the media - which is described as a security threat and vulnerability...

Eight journalists were critically wounded in a bomb attack on Tuesday. The attack took place at a police school in the Abdiasis district of northern Mogadishu, according to the National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ). The journalists were wounded after a bomb exploded at the police training facility where an Al-Shabaab spokesman was holding a press conference. Al-Shabaab took over the base on...

Faiz Muhammad Sasoli, a reporter based in Khuzdar District, in the southwestern province of Balochistan, was killed in hail of submachine-gunfire Sunday, according to Reporters sans Frontières (RSF). Sasoli, who worked for the Aaj Kal daily newspaper and the Independent News of Pakistan agency, had escaped two previous murder attempts. His death brings to six the number of media workers killed...

Five journalists with the Dagestani independent weekly Chernovik are being prosected, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). Editor-in-Chief Nadira Isayeva and reporters Magomed Magomedov, Artur Mamayev, Timur Mustafayev, and Biyakai Magomedov are charged with incitement of hatred and demeaning the honour of law enforcement officials as a “social group” in several stories...

Kyrgyz authorities have detained independent journalists Ulugbek Abdusalomov and Azimjon Askarov in the southern part of the country engulfed by ethnic violence since early June, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). On June 14, unknown men picked up Abdusalomov, chief editor of independent newspaper Diydor, from a street in the Jalal-Abad region; police are holding him in a...

The Committee to Protect Journalist (CPJ) has welcomed the arrival in the United States of Sri Lankan journalist JS Tissainayagam, who arrived at Washington’s Dulles International Airport on Saturday morning. He was met there by friends. According to CPJ representative Kamel Labidi, who was on hand to meet Tissa, “He was all smiles, and said to thank everyone who helped him gain his freedom.”...

Authorities in Ethiopia expelled an American journalist on Thursday who had been reporting near a rebel area in the east of the Horn of Africa country, according to local journalists. Heather Murdock had been reporting with the US international broadcaster Voice of America (VOA) in the eastern region of Harar, near an area where there was reported skirmishes between the army and rebels of the...

Local television stations in the southern Kyrgyz city of Osh were ordered to cease transmission on Friday by the city government in the wake of interethnic violence in the region, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). Osh residents now have access only to the state television channel, KTR, and several Russian television channels, the independent news agency Zpress reported. “We...

Istanbul’s Yargıtay High Court handed down on Friday a 15-month prison sentence to Turkish journalist Irfan Aktan, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). Aktan was found guilty of “producing terrorist propaganda” in an article published in an issue of the biweekly Express in October 2009. The article described scepticism among Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) members toward a...