Attacked

The South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO) has expressed deep concern over the attack on private television station TV Alter in Athens, Greece, on February 17. According to SEEMO, around 7:15 p.m., four armed men fired shots and threw a suspected explosive device outside the premises of TV Alter's central offices in Athens. No injuries were reported. The attack happened before the station's...

The Committee to Protect Journalists has condemned Saturday's brutal knife attack on Hassan Bulhan, director of a local radio station in the central town of Abudwaq. Bulhan was stabbed at least five times in the chest and abdomen during a clan reconciliation meeting, two local journalists told CPJ, in what was the second attack on a Somali journalist in just four days. Bulhan was in stable...

The International Press Institute (IPI) and the South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO) have reiterated earlier calls for Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan to refrain from verbal attacks on the media. This latest call follows the January 30 assault on journalists during a public speech in which the prime minister condemned the press for being biased in their coverage of the recent...

Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) has urged Pakistani authorities to act effectively to protect Kamal Asfar, journalist on the magazine Ash-Sharq (The East), who on February 1 escaped a murder attempt. His brother, journalist, Aamir Wakil, was killed in Rawalpindi on January 24. “I am lucky to be alive today”, Asfar told the worldwide press freedom organisation. Two bearded men had fired several...

A 72-year-old Russian journalist, critical of local authorities, has been severely assaulted. Authorities must launch a serious investigation into the attack on Yuri Grachev, editor of pro-opposition weekly Solnechnogorsky Forum, who is hospitalized with a concussion, broken nose, and lacerated cheek, the Committee to Protect Journalists said on Friday. An initial statement from authorities, which...

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has called on Israel to return confiscated news footage of its navy allegedly firing on and boarding a ship on Thursday. Journalists who were on board say they filmed Israeli soldiers assaulting a passenger, and that they were later beaten after their equipment had been confiscated, a reporter who was there told CPJ. According to Al-Jazeera English...

Following a vicious attack in Almaty, Kazakhstan, on a reporter for a pro-opposition weekly, the Committee to Protect Journalists has called for the Kazakh authorities to conduct a thorough and transparent investigation and to bring the assailants to justice. At least three young men attacked Bakhytzhan Nurpeisov, 19, of the weekly Obshchestvennaya Pozitsiya (Public Position), at around 9 p.m. on...

Pakistani authorities have been arged to adopt energetic measures following the murder of a journalist and an attack on a privately-owned TV station within a space of 48 hours over the last weekend. On January 24, Aamir Wakil, 40, a married man with four children, was murdered close to his home in Rawalpindi, near Islamabad. On January 26, an angry crowd ransacked the studios of Samaa TV in the...

Angry opposition supporters burned down two pro-government television stations in the Indian Ocean island of Madagascar on Monday, a few hours after authorities destroyed the antenna of an opposition radio station, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has reported quoting news reports and local journalists. The violence highlighted escalating political tensions between Malagasy President...

Supporters of suspended Congressman Narayan Rane attacked the office of Marathi daily Navakal in Mumbai on Thursday, the Times of India reported. The attack was apparently in protest against a satirical editorial written on Rane and his innings in different political parties. The protesters, who smashed windowpanes and hurled paver blocks into the newspaper house in Girgaum, claimed to be members...