Threatened

Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) has voiced concern about gruesome threatening messages aimed at journalists and the fact that one of the latest messages, which are being blamed on drug traffickers, was followed four days later by an apparent attempt to kill a leading investigative journalist by sabotaging her car. On 3 May 2007, World Press Freedom Day, the head of a corpse was left on a street in...

The Committee to Protect Journalists is alarmed by death threats made against Dinko Gruhonjic, head of the Vojvodina branch of the independent news agency BETA and chairman of the Independent Journalists’ Association of Vojvodina, by a local neo-Nazi group. The threats, which were posted on a neo-Nazi Web site this week, stem from Gruhonjic’s coverage of National Formation, a neo-Nazi group based...

After its recent carnage in Upper Assam, the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) has now trained its guns on the media in the state. The militant outfit has warned three editors of local newspapers who criticised the group for asking a private TV channel to prove a news report within a month or to wind up its operations in Assam. Security personnel keep vigil near the bomb blast site at...

A journalist who received death threats from a pro-government militia is in danger in the central-east Indian state of Chhattisgarh. Afzal Khan, correspondent in Bhopalpatnam for the daily Hind Sat based in Jagdalpur, central India, was badly beaten and received explicit threats he would be killed. "The fight against Maoist groups has been getting out of hand,” Reporters Without Borders said. â...

Reporting on incidents relating to militants and militancy in Manipur is increasingly making life difficult for journalists here. The latest episode has been the death threat against the Imphal Free Press over a report about the killing of two suspected militants in an encounter that the newspaper carried last week. The threat has since been withdrawn but working conditions for journalists remain...

Journalists in Assam have condemned the recent threat issued by the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) to four journalists in the state. The ULFA 'commander in chief' Paresh Baruah in a statement on June 8 had accused the journalists of trying to create an atmosphere of confusion over the peace initiative to facilitate direct talks between Government of India and ULFA. OMEGA OF THE ULFA: A...

Reporters Without Borders has voiced concern about threats by separatist groups against cable TV operators in Kashmir during the past week that led operators to suspend some entertainment channels. "Over the years, armed separatist groups have become more and more threatening towards the media in Kashmir," the organisation said. "We call on all the separatist movements to stop intimidating...

Amritsar, Apr 20: Three policemen, including two Head Constables, were today suspended for allegedly indulging in an immoral act with a woman in a car with tinted glasses in a posh area of the city, police said. Senior Superintendent of Police Sudhanshu S Srivastava said that the incident came to light after a team of a private news channel reached the spot on the Mall Road here on Monday. The SSP...

Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) has called on Mexican federal authorities to take charge of investigating attempts to intimidate crime reporter Claudia Padilla Pacheco of the local daily Correo in Celaya (in the central state of Guanajuato) after she wrote two investigative reports about the alleged implication of local police in criminal activity. AT THE CORREO: Correo's Caludia Padilla exposed a...

IMPHAL, OCT 28 (PTI): Newspapers were not published in Manipur today following a decision by editors and managements in protest against frequent interferences by militants in the functioning of media organisations. A joint meeting of editors and senior journalists of different papers was held yesterday and the decision was taken not to bring out editions of the dailies indefinitely, sources said...