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Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) has called on Mongolian authorities and political parties to protect journalists and guarantee media freedom after a series of incidents involving the press during violent demonstrations following the June 29 legislative elections. "We condemn the violence by demonstrators, who seriously injured three reporters," RSF said. "It is also very regrettable that the...

The Committee to Protect Journalists has expressed concern over the attack Monday evening on Namal Perera, freelance journalist and deputy head of the Sri Lanka Press Institute (SLPI), a media rights advocacy group. Perera was attacked by men with iron bars in Colombo while travelling in a car with a British diplomatic official, according to international news reports. Perera is recovering from...

Ten to 15 men armed with AK-47 rifles stormed the offices of the Ugandan tabloid daily Red Pepper on Saturday, setting fire to a generator and the printing press, according to news reports and CPJ interviews. The men, riding in a convoy of five vehicles, carried out a well-orchestrated raid that lasted no more than 15 minutes, Red Pepper Managing Editor Arinaitwe Rugyendo told CPJ on Tuesday. Four...

Three rights organisations - ANHRI, the Arab Council for the Support of a Fair Trial and the Hisham Mubarak Law Center - submitted a petition to a deputy demanding an investigation into the brutal assault of journalist Kamal Murad of "Al-Fajr" newspaper by three police officers on June 17. The police officers, who are from Rahmanya Centre in Buhaira Governate in the Delta region, badly beat Murad...

The Indian newspaper society (INS) and Editors Guild of India on Wednesday condemned the attack on three journalists and the office of Malayala Manorama in Kerala allegedly by SFI activists and asked the state government to take strong action against the guilty, says a Press Trust of India (PTI) report. In a statement, INS president Bahubali S Shah said the three journalists and a driver were...

Bomb attacks were carried out Saturday against the privately-owned television station Canal 4-Unitel in Yacuiba, Tarija department, southern Bolivia, and against the radio station Radio Kollasuyo in Potosí, in the department of the same name in the country's southwest. Political and media polarisation that is undermining the country was behind both attacks, which caused severe damage in both cases...

Two unidentified men beat and stabbed Luis Pablo Guardado Negrete, deputy director of the local daily Noticias de la Bahía, on Saturday afternoon inside his office in the western Mexican state of Nayarit. The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has called on the local authorities to investigate the attack and bring all those responsible to justice. At 3 p.m. on Saturday, two men arrived at the...

Two unidentified men beat and stabbed Luis Pablo Guardado Negrete, deputy director of the local daily Noticias de la Bahía, on Saturday afternoon inside his office in the western Mexican state of Nayarit. The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has called on the local authorities to investigate the attack and bring all those responsible to justice. At 3 p.m. on Saturday, two men arrived at the...

The police have booked cases against the activists of United Students Forum (USF), a fan outfit of the Telugu filmstar Chirenjeevi, for attacking a scribe of a regional satellite TV channel Saturday. The police said cases were registered against the USF activists for assalting reporter Ramesh, who was injured and later admitted to a hosptial. The scribe was attacked by the activists after covering...

Kook TV, a local station based in Multan, in the east-central Pakistani province of Punjab, was attacked by about 60 people who stormed into its offices, assaulted one of its journalists, seriously injuring him, and inflicted about 1 million rupees (approx. 10,000 euros) in damage to equipment. Kook TV editor in chief Zubair Naseer told Paris-based Reporters sans Frontières (RSF): "Individuals...