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The police commissioner of Aruangabad, KL Bishnoi, on Thursday suspended a head constable for threatening to kill a press photographer, says a Press Trust of India (PTI) report. The report against constable Pradeep Dhote and Sudhakar Rathod of MIDC Waluj poilce station and Vishnu Jagdale and Babasaheb Kakade of Cantonment police station will be submitted on Friday. The policemen reportedly...

A journalist and three crew members of private TV channels were roughed up, allegedly by pro-strike activists in various places, when they were covering the general strike, called by Leftist trade unions here on wednesday, police said, according to a Press Trust of India (PTI) report. Some details: Amrita TV Chief Reporter Deepak Dharmadam was traded blows by a group of persons when he was moving...

A government vehicle was used to ransack the offices of two Senegalese independent newspapers on Sunday, the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has eported. The attacks came just three days after a top official threatened unspecified retaliation against the papers over critical stories. A dozen unidentified men stormed the offices of the daily 24 Heures Chrono at about 8:30 p.m...

Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) has condemned a shooting attack on journalist Amanaj Khalil, of the weekly Rudaw, on August 1 in Kani Kardatt, a region to the west of Sulaymaniyah in Iraqi Kurdistan. Khalil, who was not injured, had reportedly been getting threats because of one of his articles. "This attempt to murder Khalil should be taken seriously by the authorities in Kurdistan," Paris-based...

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has condemned Friday's vicious attack on Zurab Tsechoyev, editor of Mashr, a human rights website based in the volatile North Caucasus republic of Ingushetia. At least 50 armed, masked men in camouflage gear raided Tsechoyev's home, shoved him into an armoured personnel carrier, drove him to an unknown location, and interrogated and beat him for five...

Unidentified individuals set fire to the home of critical journalist Jeso Carneiro on Sunday night in the northern city of Santarém. No one was injured but the house suffered considerable damage. The New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has called on Brazilian authorities to investigate the attack and provide the necessary protection to allow Carneiro to continue working without...

A photojournalist of a Hindi daily was beaten up by the police and arrested in Allahabad on Sunday night. Hemant Chaudhary, however, termed the police action arbitrary, the Indian Express has reported. Chaudhary claimed that he was trying to take photographs of the Allahabad Museum on Sunday evening, when the museum guards objected and snatched his camera and mobile phone. They dragged him inside...

Journalists on Friday were caught between the opposing factions while covering the Ahmedabad Bandh called in memory of the two minor boys who had died under mysterious circumstances at the Asaram Ashram gurukul, the Indian Express has reported. Half-a-dozen reporters and cameramen from the national and the local media, including a woman journalist for a national TV channel were attacked by angry...

Two city journalists — a female PTI staffer and NDTV India reporter Dharmendra Tiwari — were threatened, abused and assaulted by two railway officials inside a Titwala-bound local train on Saturday night, says an Indian Express report. The incident occurred when the reporters were returning home to Ghatkopar from Sion at 10.45 pm. According to a complaint filed by the reporters with the Kurla...

Shortly after the editor of daily Hamro Prajashakti moved the High Court against the Sikkim Democratic Front (SDF) government, the newspaper office was attacked by masked men who injured seven journalists, including editor Anjan Upadhya, says a Press Trust of India (PTI) report. The journalists of various newspapers and agency who gathered at the office at Ranipool, about 10 km from here...