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Agil Khalil, a reporter for the Azerbaijani opposition daily Azadlyg has been assaulted several times in the past three months. Authorities have taken no measures to guarantee his protection, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). On May 10, Khalil tried to fly to Istanbul to visit his relatives, but border guards at the airport in Baku stopped him, citing an order by the...

Two masked men fired at reporter Edson Ferraz of TV Diário (a station affiliated to the privately-owned Rede Globo network) on May 15 in Mogi das Cruzes, an outlying suburb of São Paulo in Brazil. Ferraz escaped unhurt. The 25-year-old journalist had been covering a case of corruption and money-laundering involving 19 local policemen and had been warned of possible reprisals. “In some respects...

The Shiv Sena on Sunday started an agitation against establishments using the word “Bombay” and targeted a reputed school and a newspaper supplement. Apparently moved by party MP and Executive Editor of the Sena’s mouthpiece Saamana Sanjay Raut’s views in his weekly column, the activists allegedly burnt some copies of Bombay Times, a supplement of The Times of India, the Press Trust of...

A CNN reporter who left Myanmar Friday was chased by authorities as he reported on the aftermath of Cyclone Nargis but escaped primarily because of the incompetence of the people after him, the Associated Press (AP) has reported. Dan Rivers hid under a blanket at one police checkpoint and casually covered up his name on a passport to avoid detection another time. He may ultimately have gotten out...

Reporters sans frontières (RSF) said Wednesday it was disgusted by a murder attempt against Bisharo Mohammed Waeys, celebrated presenter on the privately-owned Eastern Television Network (ETN), on May 4, the last woman working openly as a journalist in the semi-autonomous region of Puntland, north-eastern Somalia. Bisharo Mohammed Waeys, who presents a popular talk show onto which she invites...

The Chennai police have arrested three persons including a godman for assualting a journalist, who tried to take photographs of their ashram in Adambakkam on Thursday, the Times of India has reported. The police arrested godman Vikraman and ashram employees Ravichandran and Selvam in connection with the assualt. Police said Vikraman has been running the ashram in Thillai Ganga Nagar near...

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has expressed alarm at the shooting of a Mexican journalist’s house in the southern state of Oaxaca, in what appears to have been a targeted attack, on April 18. The day before the shooting, Melchor López, general director of Radio Mixteca (88.7 FM), a commercial station based in Santiago Juxtlahuaca, said he was followed by white Jeep Liberty truck after...

A broadcast journalist in the Democratic Republic of the Congo pressed charges Monday against an Angolan diplomat, alleging he was beaten unconscious by the diplomat and his aides on Saturday, according to local journalists. Journalists familiar with their colleague’s station, Radio Télévision Mwangaza, told the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) that the attack was in reprisal for coverage of...

Chinyeke Tembo, a Malawian freelance journalist who was arrested Thursday for calling a lady police officer 'beautiful', was Friday charged with 'insulting the modesty of a woman'. Tembo was arrested when he was among a group of journalists who had gone to a police station in the capital, Lilongwe, to give 'moral support' to a colleague, Maxwell Ng'ambi, who was arrested earlier, Panapress news...

A drunken man brutally attacked NDTV journalist Chandra Prakash on Thursday night in Noida, the channel reported. The culprit, Nandan Chaturvedi has been behind bars since Thursday night, when he almost killed the NDTV journalist. Chaturvedi was drunk when he drove his Santro into the car of Chandra Prakash in Sector 41, Noida at around 11.30 pm. Chaturvedi then took out a stick and beat Chandra...