Attacked

More than 10 journalists were injured on Monday when the police tried to break up a rally taken out in capital Kathmandu by the Federation of Nepalese Journalists (FNJ) to protest Sunday's attack on Himalmedia by supporters of the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist), the principal constituent of the ruling coalition in Nepal. According to ekantipur.com, the police personnel at Maitighar Mandala, a...

Habib Papy Boubendji, an investigative journalist with Le Nganga, a satirical weekly in Gabon, was badly beaten by soldiers inside the presidential compound in Libreville on the night of December 5, Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) has reported. Boubendji, also known as Habib Bibalou, is now in intensive care in a military hospital near the capital where only his wife is allowed to visit him. "The...

The National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ) is protesting the shutting down of Radio Markabley in the Bardhere District of Gedo Region in southwest Somalia by the Regional Islamic Administration. The head of security at the Islamic Administration in Bardhere, Sheik Barre Qoje, went to the newly established radio station on December 10 around 7:20 p.m. (local time) and ordered it to shut down...

Ten journalists, mostly of them photojournalists, were injured on Sunday when police and paramilitary personnel beat them up while they were covering anti-election demonstrations during the fourth phase of the Assembly polls in North Kashmir's Sopore constituency. The injured were shifted to a nearby hospital where from one of the seriously injured—Mukhtar Khan of AP—was shifted to a hospital...

Unidentified persons threw tear gas bombs and pamphlets and fired into the air outside the Caracas home of Venezuelan journalist Marta Colomina on December 1, the Peru-based Instituto Prensa y Sociedad (IPYS) has reported. Colomina presents an editorial program in Unión Radio and is a columnist for the newspaper El Universal. In the pamphlets, which were signed by members of the group known as La...

A controversial businessman has been arrested in Bulgarian for blackmailing a journalist and assaulting her son. The Sofia District Prosecutor's Office has ordered a businessman from the town of Dupnitsa, Plamen Galev, his accountant Krasimir Okov and his bodyguard Georgi Gradevski, to be detained, the prosecutor's office said on Friday, according to Sofia News Agency. Galev and Okov have been...

A bomb exploded Wednesday at the Agence France-Presse (AFP) office in Athens causing minor damage but no injuries, the international news agency said. An underground group labelled as anarchist by Greek police claimed responsibility. The bomb, made up of four small gas cannisters, was placed at the front door to the office on the fifth floor of a block in the centre of the Greek capital. It...

Police officers beat journalist Mohamed Hussein with batons because he was covering the suddenly-imposed dawn-to-dusk curfew in Batticaloa on November 29, the Colombo-based Free Media Movement has reported. Hussein is associated with the Kalmunei media house, run by Inter News. According to FMM sources, on the morning of November 29, Hussein took a bus from Eravur to go to his work at the Kalmunai...

A team of journalists working for US media company National Public Radio had a narrow escape from a car bombing in Baghdad after Iraqi soldiers warned them that a device had been attached to the bottom of their armoured car. The bomb exploded about 15 feet from the NPR journalists. It destroyed the car but nobody was injured. Ivan Watson, a 33 year-old reporter for NPR on temporary assignment in...

A Belgian TV journalist and his crew were assaulted while reporting on AIDS in Central China, Reuters has reported. After interviewing several representatives of AIDS groups on Thursday, Belgian journalist Tom Van de Weghe and his production team from Flemish public television VRT were beaten and robbed of cash and equipment by 12 men recruited by authorities in Henan province, a VRT spokesperson...