Attacked

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has expressed alarm at a report of a grenade attack on the home of a female radio journalist in Herat province, Afghanistan. It is the second attack on radio producer Khadija Ahadi’s home in two weeks. The Afghan Independent Journalists’ Association (AIJA), an IFJ associate, reported that unidentified gunmen threw a grenade inside Khadija’s home on...

A high-profile Croatian journalist has narrowly escaped an apparent murder attempt. Ivo Pukanic, the owner the Nacional weekly, was walking to his home just before midnight on April 10 when a man approached him and fired once from a gun with a silencer, the BalkanInsight.com website has reported. Pukanic quickly reacted and the bullet missed. The attacker tried to fire again but the gun failed to...

Two Haitian reporters were injured by rubber bullets while covering clashes between protesters and Haitian and UN forces in Port-au-Prince Tuesday, according to news reports and interviews. A third journalist was wounded by pellets that were fired by protesters, a press advocate said. The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) Wednesday called on Haitian and UN authorities to provide the necessary...

The secretary-general of the National Union of the Moroccan Press (SNPM) has been injured in an attack, SNPM said Wednesday. Mohammed Eddou Serraj was struck on the head with an iron bar by two people when leaving a meeting of the trade union in Rabat on Tuesday. The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) Thursday called on Moroccan authorities to investigate the attack on Serraj . “We...

An Iraqi reporter was seriously injured Wednesday in a landmine explosion in east Baghdad, while another was injured by a sniper in the southern city of Basra, according to the Iraqi Journalistic Freedoms Observatory (JFO). Haitham Ibrahim, a cameraman working for Iraqi al-Dayar satellite channel, had his leg amputated after suffering serious injuries in a landmine explosion in Talabiyah district...

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has expressed shock at the attack on Radio Zafar, an independent radio station close to Kabul, on March 28. The Afghan Independent Journalists’ Association (AIJA), an IFJ associate, received reports from the head of the radio station that four unidentified gunmen illegally entered the station at 1:00 am and tied up two security guards, before fire...

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has condemned Thursday’s attack on Arseny Makhlov, founder of the independent weekly Dvornik, in the western city of Svetlogorsk, Kaliningrad region of Russia. An unidentified assailant stabbed Makhlov twice in the back at around 7:00 pm as he was leaving a local restaurant, the journalist told New York-based CPJ. The attacker fled the scene immediately...

Two senior photojournalists were injured when they were assaulted, allegedly by AIADMK activists, while covering a clash between two rival groups of the party during a function organised in connection with the inauguration of a AIADMK youth camp in Rameshwaram on Thursday. Police told Press Trust of India that M Seenivasan, photo journalist of Tamil daily, Dinamalar, suffered injuries on the head...

The Sri Lankan army took control yesterday of public Sri Lanka Rupavahini Corporation (SLRC) television. The army and police sealed off all roads leading to the station in the morning, preventing more than 200 staff from getting to work after employees threatened to strike in protest against a series of assaults by men “suspected of acting on behalf of a minister”. The takeover of the television...

A journalist with a leading Azerbaijani newspaper who had to be hospitalised last week after being stabbed in the chest by a miscreant, has been released. acording to Arif Aliyev, chairman of the Editors Association Yeni Nasil, Four unidentified assailants encircled Agil Khalil, a reporter with the opposition daily Azadlig (Freedom), as he was leaving his office in the evening of March 13. One...