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An Iraqi sports reporter, Alaa Abdel Wahab, was killed in the northern city of Mosul on Sunday by a car bomb that injured another journalist. Two journalists employed by Al-Iraqiya TV were also injured in a separate car bombing in Baghdad, Paris-based Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) has reported. “We are saddened and appalled by these two bombings,” RSF said. “It is time the slaughter of...

Twenty journalists were injured in the massive suicide car bomb blast on Wednesday that killed at least 30 people and injured over 250, in Lahore, the capital of Pakistan's Punjab province. Offices of a number of newspapers and television stations were also damaged in the blast. According to the Punjab Union of Journalists (PUJ), more than 20 journalists and media workers suffered multiple...

A hand grenade attack was carried out on opposition television station Maestro TV in the early hours of Monday in Tbilisi as the political debate programme “Camera 5” was being broadcast live. The explosion damaged the entrance and blew out windows but caused no injuries, Paris-based Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) has reported. “Any use of such methods to intimidate news media is deplorable and...

The Philippines government must address a series of shootings that have targeted journalists on the southern island of Mindanao, the latest coming on Wednesday when gunmen critically wounded a local radio broadcaster, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has demanded. One of two men riding a motorcycle fired once at Harrison Manalac at about 7:45 p.m. Wednesday, according to local news...

Sierre Leone journalist Sylvia Blyden has been forced into hiding after receiving death threats, while another, Umaru Sitta Turay, suffered a vicious knife attack, Paris-based Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) has reported. Both journalists were targetted for attack because they had allegedly “libelled” Sierra Leone’s president, RSF said, urging the head of state to call off the “witch-hunt” against...

A journalist from Bangued was unharmed after gunmen fired at her family's house on May 14, delayed reports have said. Bangued is the capital of Abra, a province approximately 408 km northwest of Manila. Marjorie Bandayrel-Trinidad, news editor of the weekly community newspaper Abra Today, said she and her husband were awakened by the sound of breaking glass at around 3:30 a.m. (local time) on May...

Sitta Turay, editor-in-chief of the Freetown-based bi-weekly newspaper New People, was violently attacked on May 14 by two functionaries of the ruling All People's Congress Party (APC) for allegedly defaming President Ernest Bai Koroma, the Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) has reported. An MFWA correspondent said that two men stormed Sitta Turay's office and accused him of using his...

Yemeni security forces raided the Aden compound of the country's most popular independent newspaper on May 13, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has reported. One passerby was killed. Just before noon, a group of security forces clashed with guards at the offices of Al-Ayyam, firing teargas and bullets and wounding at least two guards and killing the passerby, according to local and...

A murder attempt was recently made against Mohamed Ould Zeine, editor of the independent Arab-language daily in Mauritania El Wattan and star presenter on Radio Mauritania, Paris-based Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) has reported. The journalist was left for dead after being battered and slashed by two men wielding baseball bats and knives on the evening of May 12. He suffered a very serious...

Kyrgyz authorities have been urged to detain, charge, and prosecute three men who attacked Yrysbek Omurzakov, editor of the independent newspaper Tribuna, in the capital, Bishkek, last week. On May 7, at around 5 p.m., two sedans blocked Omurzakov's marked press vehicle at an intersection near his office, the editor told the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). Omurzakov said he...