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A journalist was beaten up and subjected to electrical shocks by officials of the Carabobo State Police in Venezuela after he was accused of damaging some furniture in the reception area of El Periódico newspaper and carrying a gun without a permit, according to the Instituto Prensa y Sociedad (IPYS). On May 5, Fabián Chacón, legal representative of journalist Leocenis García, stated that his...

The Association of Independent Electronic Media (ANEM) has condemned the attack on Montenegrin sports commentator and journalist Mladen Stojovic. Stojovic, a journalist with the daily Danas and Belgrade correspondent of the Podgorica-based daily Vijesti, was assaulted Friday May 23, in his apartment in Bar. Heavy blows on his head caused amnesia, and Mladen Stojovic cannot remember exactly what...

A newspaper editor was assaulted and another was threatened by Maoist activists annoyed by critical coverage, in separate incidents in Kailali, in far western Nepal, according to the Federation of Nepali Journalists (FNJ). In the first incident, Hemanta Paudel, editor of the Kailali-based newspaper Sudur Sandesh Daily, was threatened by the Maoist party-affiliated Young Communist League (YCL) on...

Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) has condemned the continuing use of violence against the independent press after 60,000 copies of The Zimbabwean On Sunday newspaper were intercepted and torched on the evening of May 24, and a freelance reporter was attacked and beaten in the eastern city of Mutare. "These attacks must not remain unpunished", the press freedom organisation said. "Since the March 29...

Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) has condemned the continuing use of violence against the independent press after 60,000 copies of the Zimbabwean On Sunday newspaper were intercepted and torched on the evening of May 24 and a freelance reporter was attacked and beaten in the eastern city of Mutare. “These attacks must not remain unpunished,” Paris-based RSF said. “Since the March 29 general...

A policeman on horseback struck photographer Víctor Salas several times with a metal riding crop while he was covering a protest Wednesday in Valparaíso, a city to the west of Santiago, Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) has reported. Salas, who works for the Spanish news agency EFE, has been hospitalised and risks using the use of his right eye as a result of the blows. “Unfortunately this is not...

Police auxiliaries assaulted Rafael Marchante, a Spanish photographer employed by the British news agency Reuters, while he was covering a demonstration by jobless university graduates outside parliament in Rabat on May 21. "This is not the first time the security forces have attacked a journalist while dispersing demonstrators," Paris-based Reporters sans Frontières said in a statement. "The fact...

Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) expressed concern over the safety of television host Juan Bonilla Martínez, of the privately-owned station Mega Visión 43, whose car was fired upon in front of the television station in the northern Dominican Republic city of Santiago de los Caballeros on May 21. RSF has called on the government to protect journalists better. The attack came five days after...

A journalist was beaten up and an editor assaulted and robbed of his valuables in the eastern Sri Lankan town of Kathankudi, in seemingly election-related incidents, according to the Free Media Movement (FMM). Kathankidi has been a scene of election-related violence as well as widespread electoral malpractice in the recently-held eastern provincial council election. Freelance journalist JL...

Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) has called on the authorities in Afghanistan to do everything possible to protect women journalists, several of whom have been attacked or threatened since the start of the year. One, Niloufar Habibi, has continued to receive death threats since leaving hospital after being stabbed on May 15 in the northwestern city of Herat and has to change residence every day....