Conflict Journalism

A year after the gruesome muder of Zakia Zaki, the director Sada-e-Solh (Peace Radio), her killers remain unpunished. Her husband says there has been no progress in the official investigation, probably because of pressure from those who ordered her murder. Zaki was shot in her home in Jabalussaraj, in the northern Afghanistan province of Parwan, in the early hours of June 6, 2007. “Today we pay

Lawyers for a Canadian television journalist being held as an enemy combatant in Afghanistan filed a lawsuit Wednesday accusing the Bush administration of holding him illegally and demanding his release, the Associated Press (AP) has reported. Afghani native Jawed Ahmad, 22, has been held in Bagram, Afghanistan, for more than six months without being charged, according to the complaint filed in US...

A cameraman employed by public television station Al-Iraqiya, was seriously injured Tuesday in the bombing of a musical instruments shop in the old part of Basra, 550 km south of Baghdad, Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) has reported. Odai Sabri was rushed unconscious, with multiple injuries to head and body, to a hospital where he underwent an operation to remove some of the bomb fragments....

When community radio station Sarare Estéreo's journalists arrived for work at dawn on May 29 in Saravena, Aracua department, they found a gigantic graffiti message on the station door, apparently from the Colombian paramilitary group, Autodefensa Unidas de Colombia (AUC), according to the Internaitonal Federation of Journalists (IFJ). This is only the most recent of a series of threatening...

A Sri Lankan journalist working in the war-torn northern region and his friend have been hacked to death, a media rights group said Thursday. P Devakumar, 36, a correspondent for the privately-run Sirasa television, was murdered on Wednesday, the Free Media Movement (FMM) said. Devakumar is the ninth media worker to have been killed in Jaffna since 2006, FMM said. Three more journalists have also...

The FMM reports with deep sadness that yet another journalist has been murdered in Jaffna, in the embattled Northern Province of Sri Lanka. The FMM vehemently condemns this dastardly act and extends its condolences to the late journalist's wife and family. P. Devakumar, a correspondent for Sirasa TV, Shakthi radio and the MTV Television Network-Jaffna district, was hacked to death on the evening...

Two Iraqi journalists were killed in separate incidents this week. Wisam Ali Ouda, a cameraman for the Afaq television station, was shot as he walked home in the Obaidi district of Baghdad on Wednesday morning, Reuters reported. The station’s public relations head Bushra Abdul-Amir told Reuters that witnesses said Ouda was shot by an “American sniper.” Station secretary Ghufran al-Bakri told the...

Two Iraqi journalists were killed in separate incidents this week. Wisam Ali Ouda, a cameraman for the Afaq television station, was shot as he walked home in the Obaidi district of Baghdad on Wednesday morning, Reuters reported. The station's public relations head, Bushra Abdul-Amir, told Reuters that witnesses said Ouda was shot by an "American sniper." Station secretary Ghufran al-Bakri told the...

In a fresh row of violence unidentified assailants Thursday killed Muhammad Ibrahim Khan, a senior TV journalist while he was returning to his home town after interviewing Moulvi Omar, Spokesman of Pakistan Taliban Movement in Pakistan Bajaur Tribal Agency. Muhammad Ibrahim was working for Express TV and Daily Express in Bajaur Agency for the last six years and was a renowned journalist of the...

Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) has condemned the death threats made in a refugee camp in eastern Nepal on May 16 by members of the Communist Party of Bhutan Marxist-Leninist Maoist (CPB-MLM) against journalists working for the Bhutan News Service, www.apfanews.com, a website operated by the Association of Press Freedom Activists (APFA), a Bhutani exile organisation. The incident took place during...