Attacked

Colleagues of a Guinean radio journalist who was attacked by unknown assailants on July 16 are suspecting the military of being behind the attack. Etienne Mansaré, a military reporter of privately-owned Conakry-based Sabari FM, was stabbed in the back while on his way home after signing off from his political programme "Sous le Cocotier." "Mansaré must have been a victim of an action carried out...

An independent photographer and documentary filmmaker was detained and assaulted and his camera was confiscated by officers from the National Institute for Migration in Mexico. Irineo Mújica Arzate was documenting on July 16 a police action in Soltepec, Puebla, to detain undocumented Central American workers who were travelling by train to the United States, the Center for Journalism and Public...

Luis Hernández Núñez, an XEJTV Canal 5 cameraman in Mexico, was injured on July 15 when a bomb was set near a federal police convoy by individuals associated with organised crime. Four people were killed and at least 10 were injured in the attack in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, the Center for Journalism and Public Ethics (CEPET) has reported. The incident took place around 8:00 p.m. at the 16 de...

Three Kurdish journalists were attacked while they were covering demonstrations by members of the pro-Kurdish Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) in Istanbul and in Midyat, in the southeastern province of Mardin, on July 18, according to Reporters sans Frontières (RSF). The protests were prompted by reports that the bodies of several members of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), the Kurdish armed...

Over 2000 angry protesters — led by local Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS) leaders — barged into the office of Headlines Today news channel on Friday and vandalised the ground floor of the Videocon Towers at Jhandewalan in New Delhi. The mob was protesting a sting operation aired by Headlines Today, which linked RSS leader Indresh Kumar with Devender Gupta — a key accused in the Ajmer...

Miguel Belen, a reporter for radio dwEB in Nabua (in the eastern Philippines province of Camarines Sur), was seriously wounded in a shooting as he was returning to his home in Iriga on the evening of July 9. At least four shots were fired at him by two men on a motorcycle. Hospitalised and in a serious condition, he has been placed under police protection, Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) has...

Even as the authorities claimed to have issued a few curfew passes to media persons in Kashmir, police on Friday severely beat up senior journalist Riyaz Masroor, working with the Urdu service of BBC, outside his Alocha Bagh residence in Srinagar. “I received a phone call from the Information Department this morning asking me to come and collect the fresh curfew passes. As soon as I reached near...

Shortly after the death threats issued to journalists of Manipur by a rebel group, which prompted them to launch a two day ceasework , Yumnam Ibomcha, a staff reporter of a local daily, was beaten up by paramilitary troopers in the Collector's office in Imphal West district on Wednesday, the Hindu has reported. The details: [ Link] In an emergency meeting of the All Manipur Working Journalists'...

Eight journalists were critically wounded in a bomb attack on Tuesday. The attack took place at a police school in the Abdiasis district of northern Mogadishu, according to the National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ). The journalists were wounded after a bomb exploded at the police training facility where an Al-Shabaab spokesman was holding a press conference. Al-Shabaab took over the base on...

A group of armed individuals fired Friday last on the Televisa Laguna station's broadcasting facilities in the city of Torreón, in the northern Mexican state of Coahuila, according to Centro Nacional de Comunicación Social (CENCOS) and ARTICLE 19. The attack took place minutes after the facilities' workers left the building for lunch and several local media outlets have reported that more than 150...