Attacked

Assailants on motorbikes attacked a Sri Lankan newspaper editor and his wife as they drove to work Friday morning, stabbing them repeatedly, the Associated Press (AP) has reported quoting authorities. The couple received minor wounds and both were expected to recover. Four people on motorbikes blocked Upali Tennakoon's car outside of Colombo as he and his wife were heading to work at the...

The publisher of Vanuatu's Daily Post newspaper, Marc Neil-Jones, was recently attacked in the capital of Port Vila, according to Pacific Islands News Association (PINA). Radio New Zealand International reported that Neil-Jones sustained a broken nose and a black eye. Neil-Jones has filed an official complaint with the police and alleges that those involved are police officers who are employed at...

Abdumumin Sherkhonov, editor-in-chief of the Pazhvok (Echo) newspaper and a freelance reporter for Radio Ozodi (Tajik Service of Radio Liberty), was beaten up in the city of Kulyab, southern Tajikistan, on January 5, accordding to delayed reports. According to Sherkhonov, he was stopped by two young men when he was on his way to the newspaper's office. One of them, who identified himself as an...

Several unidentified assailants attacked Yermek Boltai, a reporter and editor for the website of the Kazakh service of the US government-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL), in Kazakhstan's financial capital of Almaty on Sunday, the broadcaster reported. The assailants reportedly did not take any of the editor's valuables, including his money and cellphone. The attackers hit Boltai...

Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) has voiced its concern after armed men burst into the apartment block of Janet Mba, editor of the magazine The Scroll in Arepo in Ogun State in south-western Nigeria. She escaped attack because she managed to call the police before they could strike. The worldwide press freedom organisation recorded at least 10 cases of physical assaults and eight cases of threats...

Unidentified individuals shot and injured a Venezuelan journalist outside the offices of the local daily El Regional in the southwestern Portuguesa province on Tuesday evening. The New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has today on Venezuelan authorities to investigate the attack and bring all those responsible to justice. At 6:20 p.m., unidentified individuals in a car shot Rafael...

A bomb was exploded at around 1 a.m. on January 16 at the foot of a television transmitter in the Basque country causing limited damage but no injuries, Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) has reported. The transmitter was located in the Santa Barbara hills near the city of Hernani, in Guipúzcoa province. No group claimed responsibility for the bombing, but police found a message inside the...

The mayor and local police of the town of San Pedro Jicayán, in the state of Oaxaca, burnt 1,000 copies of a newspaper and detained a newspaper vendor for several hours on January 11. The newspaper Noticias Voz e Imagen had published information that reflected poorly on the administration of Mayor Leonardo Silva Palacios, the Centro de Periodismo y Etica Publica (CEPET) has reported. While on his...

Yasser Abu Hilaleh, the Al-Jazeera network's bureau chief in Amman, was beaten by riot police while he was covering a demonstration in Rabia on January 9. Abu Hilaleh, who was reporting on the protest involving clashes between demonstrators and the Gendarmerie Forces, was approached by two individuals dressed in civilian clothing who asked him to leave the scene and threatened to assault him, the...

Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) has condemned an attack on the home of Carlos Velasco Molina, editor of the weekly El Correo de Oaxaca, in the southwestern city of Oaxaca in the early hours of January 9. Two Molotov cocktails were thrown at his house, starting a fire but causing no injuries. Fearing the possibility of violence, Velasco had moved his family to a different location a few weeks ago...