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Two publications in Pakistan's Sindh province, the daily Islam and the weekly Zarb-e-Momin, have been banned for the alleged offence of spreading "anti-state feelings". Although the order was made by the Sindh provincial government under an article of the Criminal Procedure Code dealing with forfeiture for spreading "anti-state feeling", the action appears to have been initiated by the Federal...

Two journalists were shot and wounded on Friday in Peshawar. The city is the capital of the North West Frontier Province, which adjoins Pakistan's Federally Administered Tribal Areas and has been the scene of a number of attacks on foreigners and government officials in the last few weeks. From his hospital bed in Peshawar, Sami Yousafzai, Newsweek magazine's special correspondent in the region...

The editor-in-chief of a small and vocal opposition newspaper in the Moscow suburbs, who fought a campaign to protect a forest from destruction by real-estate developers, is in critical condition after being assaulted and beaten outside his home. Mikhail Beketov, editor-in-chief of the Khimkinskaya Pravda newspaper, was found unconscious after being badly beaten on Thursday near his home in the...

A suicide bomb attack on October 29 outside the Ethiopian consulate in Hargeisa, Somaliland, injured three journalists who were walking in front of the consular premises, according to delayed reports. The National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ) said in a statement that journalist Mohamed Harun Ahmed of the Somaliland Space Channel, was severely injured as both of his legs were broken by the...

Leading Ethiopian journalist Amare Aregawi was assaulted brutally Friday last in capital Addis Ababa, an attack in which he suffered serious head injuries, Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) has reported. Aregawi edits the Reporter, a big-circulation newspaper published in Amharic and English-language versions. “The Ethiopian police must investigate this attack thoroughly in order to identify both...

A senior journalist from Uttar Pradesh was on Thursday brutally beaten by supporters of the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) in Mumbai, a day after a young man from the state died after being thrashed in a suburban train, Indo-Asian News Service has reported. Some details from the IANS report: [ Link] Dinanath Tiwari, 45, who works for the Nirbhay Pathik tabloid, had gone to Kurar village in the...

Russian lawyer Karinna Moskalenko, who represents the family of slain Novaya Gazeta journalist Anna Politkovskaya, has been the target of an apparent poisoning in Strasbourg, France, press freedom organisations have said. This has come days before she was due to appear in a Moscow court for pretrial proceedings for three suspects charged in Politkovskaya’s October 2006 slaying. “We are shocked by...

Another hit and run accident took place in Mumbai on Sunday morning, CNN-IBN has reported. The mishap involved two television journalists. One of them was seriously injured. The details: Shailendra Mohan and Dharmendra Tiwari, two journalists from the news channel NDTV, had stopped their car near the Kherwadi junction of the western express highway around 0500 hrs. They were shooting for a story...

A journalist working with a private television channel was on Saturday stabbed by unidentified persons and robbed him of his wallet and mobile phone in south Delhi, the Press Trust of India (PTI) has reported quoting police sources. Sourabh Mishra, working as a sports journalist with Zee News, was attacked by three unidentified persons who came in an autorickshaw, stabbed him and took his wallet...

The editor in chief of Bulgarian news site Frog News was beaten unconscious by three masked attackers Monday evening in Sofia. The 54-year old journalist Ognyan Stefanov was attacked soon after he left a restaurant as the three men said they were policemen before they started battering the victim, Sofia News Agency reported. The editor and his family had recently received anonymous phone calls...