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Members of the Hamas Security Force beat up journalists covering a demonstration Friday held by the rival Fatah movement, briefly arresting four of them and confiscating their cameras in a sign of growing intolerance for political opposition, Arabnews.com has reported. The Hamas men fired guns over the heads of the protesters and scuffled with Fatah members, who threw stones and bottles at a...

A Tamil journalist was attacked with acid in the Sri Lankan capital Colombo just as he left hospital where he was undergoing treatment after an assault by soldiers in June, the Free Media Movement (FMM) has reported. A Sri Lankan policeman stands guard beside the bed of KP Mohan (right), an ethnic Tamil Journalist, in the National Hospital in Colombo August 16. An unidentified gang threw acid at...

A group of Shiv Sena activists yesterday ransacked the Mumbai office of weekly Outlook to protest an article in the magazine that featured party chief Bal Thackeray in a list of "villains". The activists barged into the office located in Raheja Chambers in the business district of Nariman Point in the afternoon and asked for the editor. They started ransacking the office on being told that no...

Kannur, Aug. 13 (PTI): Scribes of Manorama News TV channel and Malayala Manorama daily's Kannur unit were manhandled by suspected CPI(M) workers while they were travelling in their vehicle here today. The incident occurred as the vehicle got stranded in a rally organised by the pro-CPI(M) "kerala state Karashaka Thozhilali Union' to the head post office here, as the scribes were returning after...

MOHALI: The photojournalist of a Hindi daily was beaten up by doctors in civil hospital; phase VI, when he was taking pictures of the hospital. A medical examination conducted at general hospital, Sector 16, Chandigarh reported broken teeth and neck injuries. However, doctors on duty refuted the allegation and wrote to health secretary and human rights commission against the journalist for...

Lydia Cacho Ribeiro is being threatened by both state and anti-state powers trying to muzzle free expression in Mexico and silence voices which expose their corruption and illegal activities. Lydia Cacho, 43, correspondent for CIMAC news agency and feature writer for 'Dia Siete' magazine in Mexico. Cacho, a journalist for more than two decades, has endured numerous death threats because of her

New Delhi, June. 23 (PTI): The Indian Newspaper Society (INS) today condemned the attack on the office of Malayalam daily ‘Mathrubhumi’ and asked the government to take urgent steps to bring the culprits to book. Reacting with “shock and horror” to the attack on the Mathrubhumi office, INS President Hormusji N Cama said, “if criminal elements and miscreants are allowed to get away with...

Journalists in Yemen rallied in protest after police arrested a Yemeni opposition editor accused of backing the country's Shiite rebels. Dozens of journalists gathered in front of the general prosecutor office in the Yemeni capital, San'a, demanding the release of the Al-Shura weekly's editor Abdel Abdul Karim al-Khawinay, taken by police to jail earlier in the day. Undated photo shows Yemeni...

NANDIGRAM: Journalists were allegedly fired at as violence continued in Nandigram for the third consecutive day on Sunday with more than 25 rounds fired and bombs hurled from a brick kiln at neighbouring Kejuri. Police sources in Nandigram said the shots were fired and the bombs thrown allegedly by CPI-M cadres from a brick kiln from where ten persons with sophisticated firearms were arrested...

Kanhangad (Kerala), May. 25 (PTI): An 'attempt to murder' case was today lodged against the Managing Editor of the evening daily, even as the editor said he was being falsely implicated in the case after the daily's office was attacked by unidentified persons late last night. According to the Hosdurg police, a case of attempt to murder was filed against Aravindan Manikoth, Managing Editor of...