Iraqi journalist Zohra al-Musawi was assaulted by unidentified men in the centre of Baghdad on October 4 while police and other members of the security forces look on without intervening, Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) has reported. Although Musawi, a presenter for satellite TV station Al Iraqiya, was wearing an Islamic veil at the time, clothes were torn off her as she was being beaten by her...
The crew of an opposition Russian-language news channel has been attacked by miscreants in Odessa, Ukraine, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has reported. On Tuesday, several unidentified men attacked ATV cameraman Dmitry Dokunov and reporter Olesya Klintsova when they approached a group for an interview at a protest rally outside a local court that was hearing a case against the station...
Norberto Miranda Madrid, a harsh critic of local crime, was shot to death on Wednesday in his office in Nuevo Casas Grandes in northern Chihuahua State of Mexico, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has reported. Around 11 p.m., two unidentified men wearing ski masks burst into the offices of local Radio Visión, where Miranda and his brother José were working, local reporters told CPJ. The...
Veteran Colombian television journalist Diego de Jesús Rojas Velásquez was gunned down Tuesday outside the central city of Supía, according to interviews and press reports. The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has called on Colombian authorities to thoroughly investigate the killing. Rojas, a reporter and cameraman for the Supía-based community station Supía TV in central Caldas province...
The assistant news editor of Nigerian daily Guardian, Bayo Ohu, was shot dead at home by a group of up to five gunmen on Sunday morning as he was preparing to go to a church service. The killers fired at least eight bullets into him, after he opened the door to them, the International Press Institute (IPI) has reported quoting news reports.. The journalist’s wife had already left the house to...
Contravía, a TV current affairs programme that was forced off the air by threats eight months ago, resumed broadcasting on the Canal Uno public TV channel Thursday. Produced by freelance journalist Hollman Morris, Contravía has long occupied an important place in the Colombian media, above all because of its coverage of the country’s nearly half-century-old civil war. Reporters Sans Frontières...
Authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo must aggressively investigate threats made against three radio reporters in the eastern city of Bukavu in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has said. Delphie Namuto and Caddy Adzuba of UN-sponsored broadcasting network Radio Okapi and Jolly Kamuntu of local station Radio Maendeleo were named in an anonymous...
An independent Russian journalist who wrote scathing articles after the Sayano-Shushenskaya hydroelectric dam disaster last month has been attacked in the city of Abakan, according to the Other Russia website. Mikhail Afanasyev, who works as the editor-in-chief of the Novy Fokus internet newspaper, related the news himself to the Kasparov.ru online newspaper on September 9. Details about the...
Ukrainian forensic experts have concluded that the skull that was found with the help of Gen Olexy Pukach, a former interior ministry intelligence officer who was arrested on July 21, is that of Heorhiy Gongadze, a journalist who was murdered in September 2000. This was announced at a news conference recently by Valentyna Telychenko, the lawyer of Gongadze’s widow, Myroslava Gongadze. “We take...
For the second time in less than a month, the lead federal investigator in the case of a journalist murdered in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, has been shot and killed in the streets of that city, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has reported. The second investigator, Pablo Pasillas Fong, was shot 13 times on August 26. In addition, on August 28, the head of the office in charge of investigating...
