Attacked

Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) has called for police to do their utmost to find those responsible for a “cowardly” physical attack on leading Iraqi Kurdish investigative journalist Nabaz Goran, who has just left Erbil, capital of Iraqi Kurdistan, to seek refugee in Sulaymaniyah to the east. The 32-year-old editor of the independent Kurdish-language bi-monthly Jehan (World) ( http://www.jehan...

Albanian newspaper editor Mero Baze was beaten unconscious by a pro-government businessman and two bodyguards three days ago, Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) has reported. Hundreds of demonstrators gathered outside the prime minister’s office in Tirana Wednesday to protest against the frequency of attempts to intimidate journalists in Albania. Baze, who edits the leading newspaper Tema and...

There has been an increase in attempts to intimidate Kyrgyzstan’s independent media after Kubanychbek Joldoshev, a newspaper reporter based in the southern city of Osh, became the seventh journalist to be physically attacked since the start of the year. He was badly beaten after his taxi was stopped by police on November 2, Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) has reported. A reporter for the municipal...

Assailants badly beat Mero Baze, chief editor of the independent Albanian daily Tema and host of the prime-time television show “Faktor Plus,” at a bar in the capital, Tirana, on Monday, according to news reports. The New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) condemned the attack and called on authorities to bring the assailants to justice. Baze lost consciousness after the attack and...

Police in Kyrgyzstan should investigate work-related motives in a weekend assault that left Kubanychbek Zholdoshev, a reporter with the government weekly Osh Shamy, with a concussion and broken ribs, the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) said Tuesday. Three assailants beat Zholdoshev as he was returning home from dinner in the southern city of Osh on Sunday night, the...

One journalist was arrested and another assaulted following the re-election of Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali as president for the fifth time on October 24, Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) has reported. Taoufik Ben Brik was arrested Thursday when he answered a summons for an alleged assault on a woman in the street last week. Everything points to the being a case trumped up by the authorities to attack...

Reporters Sans Frontières (RSF) has called on the civilian and military authorities in Bangladesh to draw the appropriate conclusions from the case of FM Masum, a journalist employed by the English-language daily The New Age, who was arrested and tortured by an elite crime and counter-terrorist force, the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB), on October 22 in Dhaka. Masum told Paris-based RSF from his...

Orhan Hijarn, an Iraqi cameraman working for privately-owned satellite TV station Al-Rashid, was killed by a roadside bomb Wednesday in Kirkuk, 240 km north of Baghdad, Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) has reported. Abdallah Zadeh, an Al-Baghdadiya TV reporter, suffered minor injuries. The two journalists had been out reporting and were caught in the explosion as they were returning to their homes...

A TV crew from the Moscow-based independent broadcaster REN-TV was recently attacked and threatened in the North Caucasian republic of Ingushetia that caused them to flee the region, the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has reported. REN-TV journalist Leonid Kanfer and cameraman Victor Muzalevsky were threatened and their driver was beaten on Wednesday, the Moscow-based...

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...