Conflict Journalism

On May 2, the Press and Publications Court in Sana’a found Hussein Muhammad al-Leswas, editor of the news website Sana Press, guilty of “undermining national foundations, the revolution, and the republic” and sentenced him to one year in prison, according to local press reports and freelance journalist Samia al-Aghraby. The court also instituted an open-ended reporting ban against al-Leswas...

The body of Sindh-based journalist Ghulam Rasool Birhamani was found Monday morning, outside the village of Wahi Pandhi in Sindh province. The Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) and the Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF) reported that the journalist was abducted the evening before his body was discovered. They also reported that his body was badly scarred and showed evidence of torture or...

Two journalists have been freed in Yemen during the past 24 hours. Al-Ayyam editor Hani Bashraheel, who was arrested on January 6, and Moaz Ashhabi, who was sentenced to a year in prison on January 16, were freed on Monday, according to Reporters sans Frontières (RSF). But a harsh crackdown on independent and opposition media continues, with another journalist, Hossein Al-Leswas, getting a one...

New demands have been made by a militant group calling itself the Asian Tigers, the captors of freelance journalist Asad Qureshi, who has been held in Pakistan since March 26, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). In a video sent to the Rome-based news agency Adnkronos International Tuesday, the abductors insisted that Pakistan release at least 160 Islamic militants in exchange...

The climate continues to be very oppressive for Palestinian journalists, who are still subject to arrests, physical attacks and searches as a result of tension between the Fatah-led Palestinian Authority in the West Bank and Hamas in the Gaza Strip, according to Reporters sans Frontières (RSF). In one of the latest incidents, Samer Rwayched, a correspondent of Sawt Al-Aqsa (a radio station linked...

The US military has banned four reporters from different Canadian and US-based media outlets to cover military commission proceedings in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). The reporters were banned after each named a US Army interrogator after being told to keep him and other participants in the proceedings anonymous. The proceedings were about the...

A reporter for independent news outlets was found shot to death Thursday morning in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul after being abducted Wednesday in Arbil, capital of Iraqi Kurdistan, according to news reports. Authorities in both cities must conduct a thorough investigation into the murder of Sardasht Osman and bring those responsible to justice, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) said...

Three gunmen shot dead veteran broadcast Somalian journalist Sheik Nur Mohamed Abkey on Tuesday evening as he was returning home from work at the state-run Radio Mogadishu, local journalists told the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). Gunmen abducted Abkey, left, near his residence in Wardhigley, southern Mogadishu, and shot him repeatedly in the head. Local journalists said they suspect...

Three Palestinian press photographers have been arrested and two others physically attacked by Israeli soldiers in the West Bank since the start of April, according to Reporters sans Frontières (RSF). In the latest incident, an Israeli soldier fired a tear-gas grenade at Muammar Jamil Awad, a photographer with the Palestinian news agency Wafa, while he was covering the weekly protest in Beit Jala...

A militant group has executed a former Pakistani intelligence official who was abducted along with documentary filmmaker Asad Qureshi, according to Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). Khalid Khawaja, a retired Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) official, was found dead of multiple bullet wounds in North Waziristan on Friday, according to local and international news reports. Khawaja and another...