Attacked

Freelance journalist John Grobler was assaulted by four men at a bar Friday evening in Namibian capital Windhoek, cutting his face with a broken glass and kicking him repeatedly in the head. Grobler was taken to MediCity Emergency Clinic, where he was treated and released, the journalist told the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). Grobler was able to identify three out of four...

“Nothing seems able to stop the violence against journalists,” Reporters Without Borders said today after learning that A Philippines radio commentator Eugene Paet was wounded in a shooting attack Thursday in a the northern province of Ilocos Sur, Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) has reported. The motive for the attempt to kill Paet is not yet clear but his family said it could be linked to...

Police on Tuesday lifted a siege of the newspaper al-Ayyam, after 24 hours of clashes between security forces and the newspaper’s own armed guards. Sources contacted by Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) said that two people were killed in the confrontation, one newspaper guard and one member of the security forces. Seven more were injured. Witnesses said that a guard mortally wounded a police...

A Somali Islamist attempted on Saturday to murder Kurt Westergaard, a Danish cartoonist who drew one of the Mohammed cartoons that caused such a controversy in 2005. Westergaard escaped unhurt but the attack could have been fatal. “Some Muslims may have been shocked by Westergaard’s cartoons, but there is no justification for such violence and intolerance,” Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) said....

Kyrgyzstan journalist Gennady Pavlyuk, who was thrown from a sixth floor window in Almaty, Kazakhstan on December 16, died Tuesdayin hospital, Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) has reported. “Ten days ahead of taking over the presidency of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), the Kazakh authorities cannot allow a murder like this to go unpunished and the Kyrgyz side must...

A suicide bomber detonated an explosive Tuesday on the grounds of the Press Club building in Peshawar, in the North West Frontier Province in Pakistan, the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has reported quoting local and international media reports. Three, possibly four, people were killed, though none of the approximately 30 journalists waiting for a press conference to start...

Several journalists attempting to report on clashes this week and last between government forces and protesters were detained and beaten up in Khartoum and the nearby city of Omdurman. Police detained more than 100 people during the clashes, the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has reported quoting local news reports. On Monday, police arrested Lucia John Abui, a journalist...

Political analyst and columnist Alexander Knyazev was attacked near his home in Bishkek Wednesday evening by four men who punched and kicked him repeatedly and took his computer and briefcase, Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) has reported. It was the second physical attack on this well-known political and media personality in the past two years and the eighth this year on journalists in Kyrgyzstan...

Police in Nepal should thoroughly investigate reports that journalist Tika Bista was brutally attacked on Tuesday in reprisal for her work, the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) said Wednesday. Bista was discovered unconscious near her home in Rukum district, western Nepal on Tuesday afternoon, with serious injuries to her head, legs, and arms, according to local press freedom...

Imad Abadi, the star anchor of the independent satellite TV news station Al-Diyar, was badly injured in a clearly targeted shooting attack Monday night in Baghdad, Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) has reported. Abadi was shot twice by unidentified gunmen as he was driving through the central Baghdad neighbourhood of Salihiya. “He suffered a gunshot wound to the head and another to the neck,” Al...