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Threats have been made against the family of senior Sri Lankan journalist Gamini Pushpakumara. Pushpakumara, who is an executive committee member of the Sri Lanka Working Journalists' Association (SLWJA) and secretary of the program producers' union of the state-owned Sri Lanka Rupavahini Corporation (SLRC), was summarily dismissed from employment at SLRC after presidential elections in Sri Lanka...

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has commended a threat made against journalist Liu Jianfeng on July 9, after he refused to take a bribe from officials in Jiangxi province in eastern China. Liu, a journalist with China Economic Times, received a life-threatening note after he reported on his blog that people had drowned during floods in Jiangxi on July 8. Officials acknowledge...

As militant outfits operating in Manipur carry on targeting the media persons and pressurise them to become their mouthpiece, the journalist fraternity here are agitated. Newspaper offices in Imphal recently witnessed a deserted look following a threat by Kangleipak Communist Party (KCP) - Military Council, which has split into two factions, Asia News International (ANI) has reported. While one...

A Guatemalan investigative journalist with leading daily elPeriódico, who recently reported on corruption and human trafficking, has received death threats, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). On June 25, two unidentified assailants broke into Marvin del Cid Acevedo’s home in Guatemala City around 10:30 a.m. while the journalist was at work, the local press reported. The...

The Somali Islamist insurgent group Hizbul Islam warned Somali media against covering celebrations of the country’s 50th anniversary Thursday, according to news reports. Hizbul Islam chief Mo’allin Hashi Farah told local radio stations that if they covered today’s celebrations they would “face bad consequences,” a report from Sapa-AFP said. “We call on the Muslim people to avoid commemorating what...

An Indonesian newspaper reporter in the western province of Aceh has had to go into hiding after being threatened and beaten by an army officer over a report about illegal logging, according to Reporters sans Frontières (RSF). The reporter, who just uses the name Ahmadi, works for the local daily Harian Aceh. “It is unacceptable just days after World Environment Day on June 5 that a journalist is...

Death threats have been made against two television reporters who covered the March murder of colleague Nahúm Palacios Arteaga in the region of Aguán, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). Ricardo Oviedo, a reporter for the cable TV station Channel 40 in the city of Tocoa, Colón state, has received threatening messages in the last week, according to press reports and a CPJ...

Four journalists who covered the recent dismissal of the electoral commission chairman received anonymous death threats via text message on Wednesday, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) and news reports. The messages, sent from the same number, said the reporters would meet the fate of three slain Nigerian journalists. “We will deal with you soon. Remember Dele Giwa, Bayo Ohu...

Honduran journalist José Alemán fled the country on Sunday after threatening attacks, including the break-in of two unidentified gunmen at his home in the rural municipality of San Marcos de Ocotepeque, near the border with El Salvador, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has said quoting local press reports. Alemán, a correspondent for the daily Tiempo and the national broadcaster Radio...

A series of death threats have been received by Marites Dañguilan Vitug, editor-in-chief of the online news outlet Newsbreak, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has said. Vitug, a veteran editor and reporter based in Manila, told New York-based CPJ she received four threatening, anonymous text messages on her mobile phone between Monday and today. The first message, received Monday...