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A bomb blast outside Iraq's national journalists' union in central Baghdad wounded the union's head and three others on Saturday. The explosion apparently targeting Muaid al-Lami, head of the Iraqi Journalists' Syndicate, caused no deaths, news agencies reported. Reuters reported: "Some vehicles outside caught fire and it shattered all the glass in the building," union member Hassan al-Aboudi, who...

In a week of violent confrontations between supporters and opponents of Bolivian President Evo Morales's government in the departments of Santa Cruz, Cobija, Tarija and, to a lesser degree, in the city of La Paz, several media outlets and journalists have been the target of threats and attacks, according to Instituto Prensa y Sociedad (IPYS). On September 9, approximately 200 youths who oppose the...

A group of 50 armed men Sunday attacked the Shahpur Jehanian Press Club, of Tehsil Daulatpur, in Nawabshah District of Pakistan's southern province of Sindh, the Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF) has reported. The attackers beat and abducted four journalists and took physical control of the press club. Among those assaulted were: Manthar Dahiri, correspondent of the daily newspaper Sobh and...

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has expressed alarm at the shooting of Sri Lankan journalist Radhika Devakumar on Monday evening. A gunman or gunmen fired on Devakumar, an ethnic Tamil, at her home in Batticaloa, eastern Sri Lanka. She was in critical condition Thursday after being transferred to a Colombo hospital, the reports said. Initial reports differed on details of the attack...

Opposition activists in the city of Santa Cruz de la Sierra stormed the offices of two state-owned media outlets on Tuesday, destroying equipment and forcing them to halt broadcasts in the wake of two-week long antigovernment protests. The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) condemned the attacks and called on Santa Cruz's governor to ensure that all media can work freely without fear of...

A contractor, who assaulted a television journalist, was arrested by the Mahadevapura police in Bangalore on Monday, the Times of India has reported. Recently, a television journalist had gone to report a tender process in Mahadevapura town municipality. Seeing journalists on the premises, contractor Prakash Reddy assaulted and pushed them out of the municipality office. A complaint was lodged...

An Iraqi journalist for one of the Middle East's best-known satellite television stations escaped assassination Tuesday when a bomb was found under the seat of his car as he prepared to leave home for work, the Associated Press (AP) reported. The attempt against Jawad al-Hattab, Baghdad bureau manager for Al-Arabiya television, illustrates the dangers facing Iraq despite the decline in violence...

Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) has voiced its full solidarity with journalists in Jammu & Kashmir, who have undergone one of the worst periods in decades since the outbreak of protests in early August. The press freedom violations have taken a heavy toll, with a cameraman killed, more than 30 journalists beaten by security forces, local TV stations censored and newspapers unable to publish...

Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) has voiced deep shock and sadness at the death of the sister of journalist Sadeq Jaafar Bashir, sub-editor on the Kurdish monthly review Araa (Opinions), who was gunned down in a murder attempt against him at his home in Baghdad. According to Paris-based RSF, 217 journalists and media assistants have been killed in Iraq since the start of the war in March 2003...

Fifteen media persons were on Sunday injured when they were allegedly assaulted by security personnel while moving around to report events in curfew-bound Srinagar, Hindustan Times has reported. The Srinagar-based mediapersons working for local, national and international news organisations had to face the wrath of Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel who refused to "honour" the curfew...