Attacked

Srinagar, May 19: In a sheer act of revenge, an Army Major on Saturday evening barged into the house of GK Reporter for Varmul Altaf Baba and subjected his family to harassment. “Troops led by Major Khanna barged into my house after a soldier was shot dead near police station Varmul and harassed my family. The troops burnt identity card of my father Ghulam Jeelani Baba who is a journalist and...

PATIALA: Jagjit Singh Dardi, Editor-in-Chief of Chardikala Group of Newspapers on Monday alleged that a Congress leader and his partner in TV Channel Newstime had attacked his office and threatened to eliminate Dardi, Jatinderpal Singh Managing Editor and Raminder Singh Babbal Manager of Chardhikala Newspaper. In a statement issue dhere Monday Dardi said that Labh Singh accompanied by miscreants...

Srinagar, May 6: Unidentified gunmen in civvies, suspected to be personnel of Special Operations Group, abducted and beat up a prominent journalist and human rights activist of Doda district, Naseer Khora, on Saturday evening. Police has registered a case. “I was picked up by gunmen in civvies near Ram Munshi Bagh Police Station around 8:30 pm. They bundled me into a white Mahindra vehicle and...

A journalist with Ontario-based Pakistan Post newspaper was assaulted by two men who had warned him to stop writing against Islam. Jawaad Faizi was attacked in Mississauga, Ontario on the evening of April 17, according to the Canadian Journalists for Free Expression (CJFE). Faizi described being attacked by two men in his car outside the home of his editor, Amir Arain. Two men, one armed with a...

The staff of the Mumbai office of Star News was attacked Monday and its offices ransacked by about 50 activists of the so-called Hindu Rashtriya Sena after it broadcast an interview with a runaway couple – a a teenage Hindu girl and a young Muslim man. Policemen are seen through shattered glass panel of the office of the Star news network in Mumbai, India, Monday, April 16, 2007. Hard-line Hindu...

A female journalist was dragged, kicked and punched mercilessly by security guards recently when she attempted to interview a group of hospitalised women at the Guwahati Medical College Hospital, according to delayed reports. Afrida Hussain of Northeast Television (NeTV), who had a hand broken in the assault on March 31, is now undergoing treatment at the International Hospital, Guwahati. The...

Foreign militants killed the brother, father, uncle, and cousin of Urdu-language Inkishaf reporter Din Mohammed at his home in South Waziristan in apparent retribution for his work, colleagues told the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). Three other family members were also abducted. Pakistani tribesmen stand guard at a checkpoint in Wana, the main town of the South Wziristan region bordering...

Hyderabad, March 21 (IANS) The editor of a prominent Urdu daily in Hyderabad was attacked late in the night when he was returning home, prompting Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy to order an inquiry. Zahid Ali Khan, editor of Siasat, was attacked Tuesday night at Mehdipatnam here while he was returning home. Some unidentified people intercepted his car and threw filth on him...

Assam Rifles jawans assaulted journalists and detained them at a security post for two hours on Wednesday for covering protest rallies over the alleged rape of an 18-year-old girl by a personnel of the post. The journalists were asked to erase all the photographs which captured the “excesses” of the AR personnel, the Imphal Free Press reported. Representatives of the All-Manipur Working...

Two journalists were bruised by Israeli stun grenades at an Israeli military checkpoint between Jerusalem and the West Bank city of Ramallah Thursday. Rami al-Faqih, a correspondent for the local Al-Quds Educational Television, and Iyad Hamad, a cameraman for the Associated Press, were each hit as Israeli border police fired at journalists covering a peaceful protest marking International Women’s...