Conflict Journalism

Hamas has decided to issue its own press cards to journalists operating in the Gaza Strip - a move that has drawn sharp criticism from the majority of Palestinian journalists. Hamas's decision is seen by many Palestinian journalists in the Gaza Strip as an attempt to restrict their work and control news coverage from that area. "Now Hamas will decide who can work as a journalist and who can't,"...

Eritrea has replaced North Korea in last place in an index measuring the level of press freedom in 169 countries throughout the world published Tuesday by Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) for the sixth year running. Outside Europe — in which the top 14 countries are located — no region of the world has been spared censorship or violence towards journalists. “There is nothing surprising about

Reporters Without Borders condemns the accusation of “liar” and other charges made by President Alvaro Uribe against leading journalist Daniel Coronell in an argument on the air on radio La FM on 9 October. Coronell afterwards received death threats in an email signed by the paramilitary group called the Aguilas Negras (Black Eagles), a predatory group still active in the north of the country. The...

NEW YORK: The death Sunday of journalist Salih Saif Aldin, the first Washington Post reporter killed in Iraq, will not spark a shift in the paper's Iraq coverage or an increase in security measures, says Executive Editor Leonard Downie Jr., who contends that the paper has always sought as much protection for reporters there as possible. "We will continue to do what we have been doing, cover the...

The last time, we traveled together to the Indira Gandhi Park. Nearly a year has passed since then. We traveled to this playground, on the outskirts of Beit Lahiya, with our dedicated Gazan taxi drivers, Munir and Sa'id, to document the killing of kindergarten teacher Najweh Khalif in front of her children by an errant tank shell that missed the kindergarten's minibus by only several meters. We...

GAZA CITY - Hamas’s police force arrested a cameraman in the Gaza Strip on Sunday as he was filming a protest by their secular Fatah party rivals, according to his employer and his family. Nabil Abu Daya, 34, a cameraman for Palestinian public television, was arrested while filming scores of children visiting the homes of slain Palestinians in the Jabaliya refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip...

NEW YORK: Supporters of Associated Press photographer Bilal Hussein, who has been held without charge by U.S. officials in Iraq for 18 months, marked the year-and-a-half anniversary Friday by presenting an online petition with 1,500 signatures to several top federal officials, organizers said. In a letter faxed Friday to the White House, U.S. State Department, the Speaker of the House of...

(CPJ/IFEX) - NEW YORK, October 12, 2007 - The Committee to Protect Journalists is increasingly concerned about the fate of missing journalist Birendra Shah as political pressure mounts in Nepal to find him. CPJ called for the release of Shah, who reports for Nepal FM, Dristi Weekly, and Avenues TV, on Wednesday. He was abducted by local Maoist cadres in Bara district in central Nepal, according to...

(CPJ/IFEX) - New York, October 10, 2007 - An Al-Jazeera cameraman held at the U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay for five years without charge is in deteriorating health as a result of a hunger strike, his lawyer told the Committee to Protect Journalists. The lawyer also revealed that the U.S. military, in a recent hearing, cited cameraman Sami al-Haj's professional training for the Qatar-based...

(FMM/IFEX) - Free Media Movement is appalled by the gross violation of journalists' rights by the military in their expulsion of three journalists from Jaffna. The journalists had even obtained MOD (Ministry of Defence) clearance to make a documentary. The Quick Silver Media crew, which was traveling in Sri Lanka to produce a documentary for Channel 4 television in the UK, was denied its right to...