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The current situation of the media in Kyrgyzstan reflects the confusion and uncertainty that has prevailed in the country as a whole since the unrest that allowed the opposition to seize power six days ago, according to Reporters sans Frontières (RSF). Although the ousted president, Kurmanbek Bakiyev, has fled the capital, he is still refusing to stand down. Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty (RFE...

Iraqi journalist Omar Ibrahim Al-Jabouri, the satellite TV station Al-Rasheed’s head of public relations, lost both of his legs Tuesday as a result of a targetted car-bombing in Baghdad, according to Reporters sans Frontières (RSF). A total of three people were seriously injured when the bomb, attached to the underside of Al-Jabouri’s car, exploded as he set off this morning for work with two...

Uniform and plainclothes Egyptian security forces assaulted and obstructed journalists trying to cover protests in Cairo on Tuesday, according to news accounts and interviews by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). Several journalists reported that police prevented them from covering clashes between security forces and protesters calling for constitutional reforms and the end of the state...

There were a number of press freedom violations in March by the Israel Defence Forces, which routinely fire on Palestinian journalists, according to Reporters sans Frontières (RSF). Eight journalists were injured by shots fired by Israeli soldiers during March in the West Bank and Jerusalem. “The incidents continue with complete impunity,” Paris-based RSF said. “The IDF soldiers involved are...

Vasyl Demyaniv, the editor of the local weekly Kolomyiski Visnyk, was violently attacked as he was returning home on the evening of March 23 in the western Ukraine city of Kolomyia, Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) has said. Demyaniv was hospitalised with severe head injuries and a broken leg following the attack, in which unidentified assailants repeatedly kicked him and beat him about the head...

Igor Larra, a correspondent for the Almaty-based independent weekly Svoboda Slova (Freedom of Speech), was attacked in the city of Aktobe that left him with a concussion and other head injuries, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has said. Larra (a pen name for the journalist Igor Kim) had extensively covered a strike by workers for the national oil producer KazMunayGas in the southwestern...

Grenade attacks were launched against two state-owned television news stations in Thailand on Saturday, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). The attacks—one against army-run Channel 5, the other against the National Broadcasting Services of Thailand (NBT)—took place Saturday night in the capital, Bangkok. “We call upon both sides of Thailand’s political conflict to exercise...

An assassination attempt was made Sunday against Muaid al-Lami, head of the Iraqi Journalists’ Syndicate, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has said. Four unidentified gunmen in a car intercepted and opened fire in Baghdad’s Al-Qadisiyya district on a two-car convoy carrying al-Lami and four other individuals, according to news reports. Al-Lami told New York-based CPJ that he was not...

A group of Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) workers stoned the office of a Malayalam daily in Thiruvananthapuram on Friday protesting a cartoon carried by it on the currency note garland controversy involving Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister and party supremo Mayawati. According to a spokesman of the newspaper, Tejas, the slogan-shouting group, holding the BSP flag, smashed the office sign board and damaged...

Five journalists were wounded while covering violent clashes between security personnel and protesters outside the capital, Kampala, on Wednesday, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has said. Scores of protestors and mourners came to Kasubi, a Kampala suburb, after a fire of unknown origin destroyed the historically significant royal tombs of the Buganda kingdom on Tuesday. Mukiibi...