The 66-year-old editor of the daily al-Ayyam, Hisham Bashraheel, was arrested on January 6, the day after the security forces lifted a 24-hour siege of his newspaper in Aden, Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) has reported. One of his sons, managing editor, Hani Bashraheel, was also arrested at the same time. Another son of Hisham Bashraheel, Mohammed Hisham Bashraheel, was arrested on January 5. It...
Several Afghan journalists’ organisations have appealed to the people who are holding a France 3 television crew hostage to free them without delay. More than 30 journalists in the provinces of Kapisa, Panshir and Parwan issued a statement Thursday call for the release of their “French colleagues.” The France 3 crew that was abducted on December 29 while investigating the construction of a road in...
Police on Tuesday lifted a siege of the newspaper al-Ayyam, after 24 hours of clashes between security forces and the newspaper’s own armed guards. Sources contacted by Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) said that two people were killed in the confrontation, one newspaper guard and one member of the security forces. Seven more were injured. Witnesses said that a guard mortally wounded a police...
Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) has condemned Yemen’s attempt to use the current anti-terror push to crush human rights after security forces today fired on a crowd of protestors staging a ‘sit-in’ outside the offices of a banned newspaper. “The Ali Abdallah Saleh government is taking advantage of support from foreign powers in the fight against terrorism on its soil to deliberately violate people...
This has been a grim year for Yemen’s independent press, the victim of an media war waged by the government under the guise of combating terrorism and sedition, and the situation could get even worse in 2010, Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) said Thursday, following the arrests of two more journalists in the past four days. The first of the past week’s media arrests was that of Khalid Jahafi, a...
Canadian journalist Michelle Lang died Wednesday while embedded with Canadian troops in Afghanistan, the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has reported. Lang was working for the Calgary Herald and Canwest News Service when she was killed along with four Canadian soldiers while travelling in a Canadian military convoy. Their vehicle was hit by a roadside bomb about two miles...
A TV crew working for the French TV station France 3 that was abducted in the northeastern province of Kapisa on December 29. The victims include two French journalists and at least two Afghans, according to Reporters sans Frontières (RSF). “The security situation in Afghanistan, including the Kapisa region, is such that we cannot rule out any hypothesis,” Paris-based RSF said. “We will have to...
A Yemeni reporter is being held without charge after being arrested on Sunday while covering clashes between security forces and separatists in Yemen’s southern province of Dhala, the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has reported quoting local news reports. The arrest is the latest attempt by the government to silence media outlets and journalists covering civil unrest in the...
A suicide bomber detonated an explosive Tuesday on the grounds of the Press Club building in Peshawar, in the North West Frontier Province in Pakistan, the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has reported quoting local and international media reports. Three, possibly four, people were killed, though none of the approximately 30 journalists waiting for a press conference to start...
Mortar shells destroyed the Radio Voice of Democracy building Monday morning in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, killing Amal Abukar, 22, the wife of the director of the station, Abdirahman Yasin, the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has reported. Abukar died instantly after three mortar shells landed on the station’s building in northern Mogadishu at 10:30 a.m., local...
