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A grenade attack was carried out on the headquarters of the Tamil daily newspaper Uthayan in the northern Sri Lankan city of Jaffna at about 11 p.m. Monday night. The grenade exploded in the patio of the building, causing considerable damage and injuring a police guard. “This was yet another attempt to stop distribution of Uthayan and comes less than a month after the arrest of N Vithyatharan, the...

Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) has expressed its concern after five newspapers in Madagascar stopped publishing and several journalists were threatened and physically assaulted during the political upheaval of the past few weeks. The media has become the prisoner of a hostile climate for press freedom since the start of the power struggle between the president, Marc Ravalomanana, and the ousted...

Vadim Rogozhin, managing director of the independent media holding company Vzglyad in the southern city of Saratov, was hospitalised in serious condition on March 10 after surviving a brutal attack last week, his company said in an official statement, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). Two unidentified assailants attacked Rogozhin, 38, as he was leaving an elevator at his...

Supporters of the ruling Movement for Multiparty Democracy (MMD) beat up the Post photojournalist Thomas Nsama on February 28, the Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA) has reported. The incident occurred at Chipata International Airport in Zambia's Eastern province. Nsama had gone to the airport to cover the arrival of Jacob Zuma, president of South Africa's African National Congress (ANC)...

An unidentified attacker stabbed a reporter outside his newsroom in Kyrgyzstan's capital, Bishkek, Tuesday, according to the regional news site Ferghana. Syrgak Abdyldayev, a political reporter and commentator with the independent newspaper Reporter-Bishkek, was attacked at around 7 p.m., Ferghana reported. Abdyldayev, 47, is currently hospitalised with 12 stab wounds and a broken arm, Reporter...

An unidentified attacker stabbed a reporter outside his newsroom in Kyrgyzstan's capital, Bishkek, on March 3, according to the regional news site Ferghana. Syrgak Abdyldayev, a political reporter and commentator with the independent newspaper Reporter-Bishkek, was attacked at around 7 p.m., Ferghana reported. Abdyldayev, 47, is currently hospitalised with 12 stab wounds and a broken arm, Reporter...

The Association of Independent Electronic Media (ANEM) and the Independent Journalists' Association of Serbia (NUNS) have condemned the threats and attack against Vladimir Vjestic, the editor-in-chief of Radio BUS in Kovin. Radio BUS announced on Monday that its editor-in-chief, Vladimir Vjestic, was threatened on Saturday, February 21, by Predrag Milovanovic, a private entrepreneur from Kovin...

An attempt to murder was made on Pakistani editor and civil servant Jan Muhammad Dashti on February 23 in Quetta, the capital of the southwestern province of Balochistan, Reporters sans frontières (RSF) has reported. The owner and editor of the Quetta-based daily Asaap, Dashti was flown to Karachi for treatment after being shot in the head and arm. The attack has been claimed by a radical Sunni...

An unidentified Pretoria News journalist was shot six times by the police during a standoff between the police and students at Tshwane University of Technology in Pretoria on February 11. Several people were injured when police fired a barrage of rubber bullets at hundreds of students protesting at the university. The journalist was rushed to hospital by paramedics, according to the Media...

A gunman killed a photographer and injured a reporter in the southern Mexican city of Iguala, Guerrero state on Friday last, according to international news reports. Photographer Jean Paul Ibarra Ramírez, 33, from the newspaper El Correo was shot three times and died at the scene. Reporter Yenny Yuliana Marchán Arroyo, 22, from the daily newspaper Diario 21 was hit three times in the legs and is...