Conflict Journalism

(RSF/IFEX) - Reporters Without Borders is shocked by the violent death of Shankar Panthi, a correspondent of the local pro-Maoist "Naya Satta Daily" newspaper, in Sunawal, in the western district of Nawalparasi. His body, which bore the signs of injuries to several parts of his body, was found by police at a roadside near a petrol station on 14 September 2007. "The behaviour of the police in this...

The Burmese junta has cut off the mobile phones of prominent pro-democracy supporters and of some journalists representing foreign media, including two from Agence France-Presse, the news agency has reported. The management of AFP has requested that the authorities in Burma (Myanmar) restore mobile phone service to its reporters so that they can carry out their work. Burma's military government...

(FNJ/IFEX) - On 16 September 2007 Sanker Panthi, a correspondent for the Butwal-based daily newspaper "Naya Satta", was found dead with injuries over his head and body on the Mahendra Highway, in Sunwal, Nawalparasi district. According to Keshav Parajuli, the president of FNJ's Nawalparasi chapter, Panthi met his fate while on his way to collect news about the destruction by locals of a Young...

MOGADISHU (Reuters) - I am in a car full of journalists driving from the funeral of a colleague murdered hours earlier in Mogadishu for doing his job. We don't get far. An explosion throws our vehicle up and fills it with excruciating heat. Black smoke billows about us. I can feel the pressure rushing up inside my clothes, my neck splits open. Reuters correspondent in Somalia Sahal Abdulle is...

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) is outraged at the continued violence against journalists in Nepal, with three brutal incidents reported in the past week. According to IFJ affiliate the Federation of Nepali Journalists (FNJ), Prabhu Yadhav, reporter for English-language weekly publication Young Guys, was allegedly kidnapped by a gang of armed assailants on September 6, before...

GAZA, Sept 11 (Reuters) - Hamas forces in Gaza held a local journalist overnight before freeing him on Tuesday, the longest detention of a journalist in the Palestinian enclave since the Islamists took control in factional fighting three months ago. Officials accused him of conspirng with their secular rivals in the Fatah movement and seized him at home on Monday, despite efforts by other...

Bangladesh's first and only 24-hour news channel has gone off air days after broadcasting last month’s student-led anti-government riots. The Bangladesh Telecommunications Regulatory Commission told the CSB News station it would be permanently closed if it fails to satisfactorily explain its registration status in seven days, said Hummam Quader Chowdhury, director of Focus Mult, the company that...

Community radio station Radio Colombe was raided by rebel soldiers on Saturday night in Rutshuru, north of Goma in the Democratic Republic of Congo, according to the station’s director, Hubert Furugupa. A group of armed men aligned with rebel general Laurent Nkunda abducted two reporters and stole radio equipment and a generator from the station, according to local journalists and human rights...

The decapitated body of a Sudanese newspaper editor accused of insulting Islam was recovered Wednesday, a day after he was kidnapped by masked gunmen. MOURNERS ALL: Sudanese mourners carry the body of the chief editor of a Sudanese independent daily, Mohammed Taha Mohammed Ahmed, who provoked a furore by publishing an article denounced as blasphemous and was found dead a day after being abducted

Hamas has decided to stop dealing with the Palestine Journalists’ Syndicate (PJS) and has gone to the extent saying that it would be dissolving the journalists union, the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has reported. Journalists are increasingly under pressure in the region as the rivalry of Hamas and the Fatah faction in Palestinian politics has led to the growing separation of Gaza...