Threatened

The editor of a New York-based weekly has received a death threat. Majeed Babar, executive editor of the Weekly Asia Tribune, said a man called him on March 29 and told him, “We will cut you to pieces” in Urdu. Babar told the Committee to Protct Journalists (CPJ) that the threat was linked to opinion columns and paid advertisements promoting a beauty pageant in his print and online newspaper, the...

Journalists in Manipur have defied the rebels diktats as the state's press and local channels decided to resume operations after closing down for a week following threats from a banned outfit, says an Asia News International (ANI) report. The offices of many newspapers and ISTV channel were shut down on March 21 after threats to four journalists from Omar Farooque’s faction of the People’s...

Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) is worried about death threats made on March 18 against Auricela Castro García, the publisher of El Mundo de Orizaba, a daily based in Orizaba, in the southeastern Mexican state of Veracruz. The aim of the threats appears to have been to deter the newspaper from reporting that a local police inspector helped the town’s former police chief to evade arrest. “We...

The editor of a Swedish newspaper has received death threats for publishing a picture of Jesus being defecated on by the devil, acording to a report in the Local website. Östgöta Correspondenten editor Ola Sigvardsson has received several death threats since the publication of the picture, which featured on posters for a punk festival. The poster depicted a Satan figure defecating on Jesus...

The commander of the Sri Lankan army, Major-General Sarath Fonseka has labelled some journalists and sections of the media as “traitors”. In an interview published in the state-controlled Sinhala daily Dinamina on January 2, Foneska said the “treachery” of the media was the only obstacle hampering the military’s fight to defeat the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). “The biggest obstacle is...

The Swedish cartoonist who depicted Islam's prophet Mohammed with the body of a dog has gone into hiding following a death threat from Al-Qaeda in Iraq. Lars Vilks, who was whisked away by the police when he returned to Sweden from Germany on Sunday, said police have described the threats against him as "very serious." The leader of Al-Qaeda in Iraq, Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, offered $100,000 over the...

An investigative journalist in Sri Lanka has been facing death threats after he made startling revelations about Sri Lanka’s purchase of Mig-27 fighter jets from Ukraine. Press freedom organisation have urged European and US embassies to do their utmost to protect Iqbal Athas of the Sunday Times, after receiving an email from the journalist in which he said he feared for his life and had gone into...

Newspapers in Manipur went off the press Wednesday after a gift-wrapped rocket-propelled grenade was delivered to a newspaper office in Imphal Tuesday night. Journalists and editors decided overnight to suspend publication of all dailies indefinitely and pull news bulletins off local cable channels. The grenade received by the Sangai Express came from a faction of the underground People’s...

New Delhi, July 9 : The Editors Guild of India today strongly condemned the threats issued to K. Gopalakrishnan, Editor, Mathrubhumi Malayalam, by leaders of the CPI(M) and its frontal organisations in Kerala. It also condemned the appearance of anonymous posters in Kerala warning that Gopalakrishnan would be framed with lewd charges. It described the purported attack on Gopalakrishnan as a crude...

An obscure Islamist group has threatened to behead female television broadcasters if they do not wear strict Islamic dress. The threat to "cut throats from vein to vein" was delivered by the Righteous Swords of Truth, a fanatical group that has previously claimed responsibility for bombing Internet cafes and music shops. The new threat was the first time the organisation targeted a specific group...