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Two journalists of the Indian Express were assaulted at Dhanyarukhi village in Burdwan’s Mangalkot on Friday, the newspaper reported. The village — where CPM leader Falguni Mukherjee was killed by miscreants, triggering the trouble at Mangalkot — is reportedly a CPM stronghold. Correspondent Kartyk Venkatraman and photo journalist Subham Dutta were injured and their mobile phones, camera...

Reporter Aweys Sheikh Nur was attacked on Wednesday last by security guards during a court session in Bosaso, in Puntland, a semi-autonomous region of Somalia, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has reported. Five security guards beat the reporter with their AK-47 rifle butts after he took photographs in Bosaso Court, he told CPJ. Puntland officials in the court, including Judge Mohamed...

The house of a second Pakistani journalist working in the border area with Afghanistan was looted and burned on Saturday, according to the Khyber Union of Journalists (KhUJ). The attack was similar to one carried out by Taliban militants on Thursday last in the same district, which has been an area of conflict since the government launched an offensive in April. According to the KhUJ and the...

As the US troops begin their withdrawal from Iraqi cities today, many questions remain about the persons still detained by the US forces. Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) has reiterated its call for the release of Reuters photographer Ibrahim Jassam, who has been held since last September. “The US armed forces are now withdrawing from the main Iraqi cities after six years of occupation,” Paris...

The National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ has expressed its alarm over aggressive attacks against two broadcast journalists in southwestern Somalia. Mr Omar Abdirahman Mohamoud (Jaajaa) and Ms Sahra Ali Mohamoud, who work for privately owned Markabley Radio as a reporter and newscaster, respectively, were seriously beaten on the evening of June 11 by four masked Al-Shabab militiamen soon...

Pakistan's security forces allegedly opened fire on June 9 on members of a media team of AVT Khyber, a Pashto TV channel, and a photographer of the English daily newspaper Dawn, resulting in injuries to a cameraperson and a driver, the Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF) has reported. The media team was on its way to cover events in Upper Dir, a volatile district of North West Frontier Province (NWFP)...

Three journalists were injured when they were assaulted by workers of the Islami Jamiat Talaba (IJT), the student wing of Jamaat-e-Islami (JI). The journalists were assaulted while covering an IJT protest rally on June 8 in capital Islamabad, the Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF) has reported. The injured included Syed Mehdi, photojournalist for the daily the Nation, Muhammad Asim, photojournalist...

An intentionally-set fire completely destroyed the facilities of FM Radio Activa, in El Bolsón, Río Negro province, located on the border with Chile. The incident took place on June 1 around 10:30 p.m. (local time), half an hour after the last employee, an operator, had left the station, Foro de Periodismo Argentino (FOPEA) has reported. The El Bolsón public prosecutor, Francisco Arrien, told...

Abduvakhab Moniev, the deputy editor of the Kyrgyz-language weekly Achyg Sayasat (Open Politics), was severely assaulted by an unidentified individual on June 5 in Bishkek, Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) has reported. The newspaper has often been the target of harassment by the authorities. “The increase in harassment of the media in the run-up to the July 23 presidential election is worrying,”...

The general secretary of the Sri Lanka Working Journalists Association, Poddala Jayantha, was abducted in Sri Lanka, beaten, and dropped by the side of a road in a Colombo suburb on Monday. The attack came on a busy road during rush hour at 5:15 p.m. Jayantha's colleagues said witnesses at the scene told them six unidentified men in a white Toyota Hi Ace van with tinted glass windows grabbed...